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You would think that, but as you're reading here, so many parents assume boys with August birthdays will start late. Even when my kid was a newborn, I had people say to me, "Well he'll be the oldest in his class since you can start him late".  WTF? [/quote]

People act like we're rebels for sending our septembers on time. [b] This city is nuts.[/b][/quote]
Have you ever lived elsewhere? It's not just "this city" or affluent people...I spent the first 15 years of my education career (1995-2010) as a kindergarten teacher in a very middle class part of the Midwest (Appleton, WI area - 9/1 cutoff) and the [b]vast[/b] majority of August boys went to school at a young 6 instead of young 5. [/quote]

+1  My sister lives in a midwest city and held back my nephew with a May birthday because he was immature, both socially and physically, and she was concerned about the expectations of kindergarten and the conditions at their school -- K was a half-day program with 30 kids in a class and 1 teacher.  An environment that would not be very supportive of a kid who needed a bit more support.  My DS is over a year younger than his cousin with a late June birthday and we sent him on time so the boys are in the same grade.

I had no concerns about sending my late-June birthday boy on time when he was just-turned-5.  I did question it later as there were years of impulsive behavior/immaturity issues which only later were ID'd as ADHD.  While being younger can = more ADHD diagnoses, in our case it instead meant issues that should have been a flag for ADHD were instead written off as just being young.  At the time I appreciated that our school wasn't one to rush to a diagnosis/push for medication but was great about implementing informal accommodations to help manage his "immaturity" but it also meant he didn't get an appropriate evaluation until high school.  [/quote]

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