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[quote=Anonymous]A almost 2 year difference in a class is crazy- is there any movement to change this?  Parents hold their kids back with an April-&gt;September birthday for absolutely no good reason - maturity?? really?? what 5 year old is not immature??  let's add 6-7-8-9-10 ages plus.  Academic?  really? whose kids have not had periods of stumbling and then zoom off?  I can mostly see in FFX Cty that holding back is in hopes that the child is either now physically better off (at K?  really?  so early!) or academically - I can gather parents hope to catch both.  However, this whole age range discrepancy is absurd- there is no reason any child should be turning 7 during K (no disabilities etc).

Am I alone?  I am not talking about any child with disabilities etc.- it's just this screwed up society where we live that has turned around a class to a two year age range and it's not because the children are geniuses (held back due to whatever fluffy non developmental reason- but hey- their kids is the oldest- that used to be a bad stigma waaay back when I went to school).[/quote]

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