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[quote=Anonymous]This topic comes up about once every two months.  My good friend has DS with September birthday.  She was concerned over it, but decided to go ahead.  He is thriving and now as someone who also started *ON TIME*, my friend is glad she did.  (She graduated at 17 and had more time to think about what she wanted to do before college, without worrying about "falling behind later" in life.  She ended up doing remarkably well.  Better than most in the area.)

Her DS is in elementary and is thriving.  You really, really need to look at the individual child.  No one knows best but the parent.

IMPORTANT:  You will find this is a regional "problem", likely caused by parents who simply worry too much; and/or are outrageously and unreasonably competitive (they did not live up to their own parents expectations).  Do not do your child a huge disservice by worrying about the "what ifs".  This is true every day, but especially in this regard.

It is not fair to the child to hold them back because you want them to be something they may never be.

Do not set your child up to be bored in school, or worse hate school later on.  They call it "redshirting", OP.  I suspect many in this area are hoping for a sports scholarship or something to justify their decision to hold the child back.  But in life, there are no guarantees.

Again, consider the parents.

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