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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were Queen:

Girls start K at 5.
Boys start K at 6.

make the cut offs national. no more poor NYC who have to go K at 4.5 and are behind the entire way through.

and I'd go further and do an all-boys preK at 5, so parents can send the boys to school when the girls go, but it's not academic at all. you wouldn't even need certified teachers. but a very slow slope to getting kids school ready, starting with outdoor time, simple team sports outside a few times a day, sitting in a circle listening to someone read, choice time, simple cooking or boiling, a day away from screens basically.

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That’s not a fit for all kids. My older son was reading at 3.5. This would have bored him to tears.[/quote]
Just had this conversation with DH. Our DS now in college was a high achiever: reading by 2.5, chapter books by 4, math above 2 grade levels.  But, DS has a summer bday and is a late bloomer, to boot.

I keep thinking: should we have red shirted him?  He may have been academically way ahead, but socially and emotionally, and to some degree, mentally, he was so far behind his peers.  When he hit MS, everyone around him had matured at a faster rate than him, so he struggled in so many ways. The only place he didn't struggle was in academics, where he was bored.

That is quite a dilemma. 
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