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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regretted it so my child skipped K.  So far it has been the right choice for him.  He's much happier.  We got a lot of pressure to hold back.  I did not think it was a good idea but the school pushed it.  They were wrong about my kid.  [/quote]

Sounds like an inexperience parent. Wait until his in MS and HS. There's a reason why you rarely see parents of middleschoolers, especially highschoolers walking around with a smile on their faces. That frown on their foreheads says they've fought through many battles. I held my child back against when expert told me to move forward, but I wouldn't have ignored them if they'd told me to hold back. They rarely do that. [/quote]

Not inexperienced at all.   I know my child.  Kids need to learn to deal with things and holding back  year isn't going to make a difference, but please tell yourself that.  K. was going to be a waste of time academically.  Physically last summer, he shot up and was so much bigger than the K. he looked out of place.  Academically he was much further than any of the other kids, so it made no sense to have him do K.  The repeating preschool was a huge waste of time and money as we had to homeschool him to keep him progressing academically.  Why pay for school when you are also teaching just as much at home?  He's in 1st and at home we are doing multiplication and division.  In K. they are doing very basic addition, subtraction and just basic learning.  I'm not worried about teenage battles.  Teachers have no clue about how my child doing as he's the kid who just gets lost in the crowd.  They assume the worst rather than spending that few minutes to realize there is far more there.  They are the teachers who tell me to my face early in the year he will fail their tests but its ok and yet, he gets 100% (and they acted shocked).  I have no interested in what teachers have to say at this point when they are so clueless and want you to hold back as it makes their job easier having a child who comes in knowing the material (which my child does anyway).

Middle school and high school suck regardless.  Keeping them back a year does nothing if academically they are ok.  [/quote]

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