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[quote=Anonymous]1.  Kindergarten is not that hard --- I mean they REALLY start at square 1 and any kid who has gone to pre-school is probably bored for the first 3 mos.  I don't understand the fear that kindergarten today is so challenging.
2.  If you or your preschool teacher think YOUR child is not ready for the demands of kindergarten (i.e. what the school demands of kindergarteners), then I have no problem with you holding your kid back.
3.  What bothers me and a lot of other people is that people often seem to be holding their child back b/c they are comparing the child to other kids and looking for an advantage.  It's not so much that they think their child couldn't handle writing their name and sounding out words -- it's that they don't want their child to be the smallest or youngest or on the flip side, they want their child to be a leader or to always be good at things as the oldest, etc.  I felt this way before  I had kids and then even moreso when I had a late summer bday child.  As a parent, why wouldn't I give my child every advantage I could?  At it's core, it's a comparative and competitive mindset.  It's looking at your child, not for what he can do, but for how he compares to others.

The potential to use red-shirting competitively is what rubs so many of us wrong.  [/quote]

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