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[quote=Anonymous]Sigh.  I am this mom.  My DD's birthday is the very end of July (turned 6 two weeks before K started) and I never considered redshirting until we switched to a new school which strongly recommended that we do it for social immaturity, an idea that was also supported by her therapist.  She has considerable anxiety and maturity issues and fits in well in the K environment with her peers. But she's also very smart, academically advanced, and bored to tears with the curriculum. She comes home and asks if I can do "real math" with her.  Several of her classmates are also very advanced academically, probably on the same level as DD, but the classroom curriculum has been slow and too easy for K, in my opinion.

I've talked to the school and her teachers about her academic level and whether redshirting was the right decision, and they insist that the school is very rigorous and that first grade will be dramatically more advanced academically, and that DD will be better able to handle the pressure since we gave her this extra year.  So, yes. we redshirted and complain (at home, not in public) that DD is not challenged.  I'm really torn about this decision and worry we made the wrong one, even though it was made at the recommendation of her school, pediatrician, and therapist.  I do wonder if they would have made the same recommendation if redshirting wasn't so prevalent.  There are very few summer birthdays in her class, and some of those are also redshirted. Had we pushed her to first grade, she would have been more than a year younger than many of her classmates, which seemed like a poor fit for a socially immature, anxious child.  I'm hoping that things improve in 1st or 2nd grade when the curriculum gets more advanced and the variation between the kids in the class evens out.  If it doesn't get better, I'm not sure what the solution is. Skip a grade?  I really wish there were hard cut-offs and parents weren't given the option to redshirt unless there is a really strong case for it. [/quote]

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