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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Competitive private school prefer the child be closer to 6 year old. You will be asking for them to make an exception for you when they can pick and choose from many bright children. [/quote]

Agreed, though depending on the definition of "summer," a summer girl is not that far off - if she is July 4, that is pretty normal. They tend to be more concerned with boys. One of my kids is mid-June and was quite tall and when we were considering private elementary they were hinting they wanted him to stay back. He was somewhat socially immature for his age but not horrible and was ahead of grade level academically (however one measures that for a kid that age). Now 10ish years later I am so glad we didn't do that.[/quote]

can you share more? i have this dilemma, tall son, cognitively advanced, but prone to bouts of silliness and immaturity and wanted to hold him back/redshirt but not sure if that will be weird given his height[/quote]

Sure. We were zoned for a good public so sent him to public where he was right in the middle of the class age-wise. He got an IEP and got some services. It all resolved within a year or two, dropped the IEP, perfectly normal kid. Not the most popular kid but he has a nice group of friends, very "normal" (which is a compliment in my book), has made new friends when advancing to new schools where he didn't know a lot of people, doing really well academically. Teenager who is now over six feet so has remained tall - he was always tall but had a growth spurt around 7th-8th grade so would have been weirdly tall if we had held him back. Getting out of the private school rat race was a great decision.[/quote]

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