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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, stop.  I've been in education for 20+ years.  The concept of sending a child who was born within 1 month - at the most 6 weeks) before the cut off has been a conversation among middle class parents for all those 20 years.  Nobody is talking about holding a child who was born in February and will therefore be 51/2 at Kindergarten entry into public school. They are talking about kids who turned 5 a few days before they start school.  There is a HUGE difference at 5 years old between being barely 5 (Aug birthday) and being basically 6 (Sept/Oct birthday).  Just as there is with a just turned 1 year old and a child who is basically 2 at 23 months old.

And for those who ARE held back with a spring birthday - the 2 examples given above - were a child who immigrated to this country with NO English and a child with serious developmental delays.  (and frankly, a child with developmental delays needs MORE than just to be held back, but their parents know that - it's none of your business).

And by right before the cutoff I mean an August or mid July birthday for a Sept 1 cutoff, a Nov 15 through Dec 31 birthday for Dec 31 cutoff.   Even the June kids are going to kindergarten.

Someone needs to be the youngest, someone needs to be the oldest, but if my child weren't socially and emotionally ready for the heavy lift of kindergarten (at this time, [b]this country has VERY developmentally INappropriate kindergarten expectations for children, too) [/b]then I'd hold my August birthday kid back if he really wasn't ready.  And some just aren't!  Or, if I wasn't sure, I'd send him to a different Kindergarten (private or Waldorf), and then send him to either Public Kindergarten (to keep holding him back/redshirting) or 1st grade depending on whether he were ready. [/quote]
+1 Could not agree with the bolded more. [/quote]

+2 I was sent a year ahead of my peers. Different country, different time, but I was home by 1pm every day for the first 5 years or so. I am terrified of how my 5yo will be expected to be gone until 4pm each day! [/quote]

Are you a SAHP with no preschool?  I don't get it.  Most of us at age 4 put our kids in a 9-3 preschool to get them prepared.  Going to elementary school was not a transition as kids at our preschool were prepared.  It was a non-issue as they were used to it, used to sitting and functioning in a classroom.  Most were also reading.[/quote]

It's not about being "prepared" - you can push academics too early on preschoolers as well. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. When it comes down to it, K just isn't developmentally appropriate for many kids, particularly those who just turned 5. Ask anyone familiar with early childhood development.

I posted links on the last stupid redshirting thread if you want to actually learn something about the subject. Or feel free to google.

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It is developmentally appropriate and those saying it make no sense.  Saying its not developmentally appropriate is meaningless.  There is no substance.  [b]I am very familiar with early childhood development[/b].  And, we didn't hold back our child.  Instead, we knew he'd be young in his grade and we prepared him.  Ever consider if your child is not ready and there are no developmental delays that you may be the problem.  You say oh, its not appropriate as an excuse not to prepare your child.[/quote]

But not familiar with kindergarten, as it is today compared to 10+ years ago.  Kindergarten has changed, children haven't.[/quote]

Please feel free to do some current research, PP. It's not about "preparation" at all.

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