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[quote=Anonymous]Former K teacher here: Kindergarten is for five-year-olds.  Unless your son has a legitimate maturity issue, there is probably no reason to hold him back simply because he will be a "young five."  It was rare (and I mean RARE) for me to have a student that I thought should have waited another year.

Surely others will weigh in, and you can search the archives for red-shirting, but I would give him the chance to do kindergarten at five years old like everyone else.  He may not even be the youngest in his class--the most popular birth months are, in order: September, August, June and July.  You're looking at him now, at four-and-a-half.  Of course he seems too young for kindergarten.  Keep in mind that he has a lot of growing and maturing ahead of him.  School doesn't start for six more months.

Is he in preschool?  Is he far behind, maturity-wise, his peers?

I'm not saying it's always wrong to hold back and always right to send at 5, but I think a lot of parents worry because their kid is "so young" and don't always take into account that everyone else in the class is young, too.  That's what K is.  Thirty or sixty days doesn't make that much of a difference.[/quote]

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