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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, no, not that.  You mean he is going to turn 8 on the last day of first grade!  Horrors!  I can't believe he is going to be 8 when he starts second grade.  The only 8 year old boys in the class should be the boys who turn 8 in the fall otherwise it's not fair![/quote]

My dd birthday is Sept 3.  Cut off is Sept 1.  Her school started Sept. 6.  So she was 8 on the first day of 2nd grade legitimately.  This child is only 2.5 mo older than my child.  Big deal.  I don't care.  Why should a couple months matter so much?  What's "not fair"?  I don't get it.  Its fair if everyone has the same options.  As far as I know, there is not a qualifying test for retention/delayed start of school.  So that option is open to everyone who chooses it.  Now don't try to tell me its not fair b/c so people can't afford it.  There are all kinds of inequities among the education of the affluent and the middles and the poor.  People w/ $$ will always find a way to get ahead and get an advantage over others.  Its human nature to give your children the best you can, whatever you believe that to be.  Get over it or make more $.  That's not a govt problem.  [/quote]

I was being sarcastic when I wrote the above post.  I agree with you.  I have become frustrated by the number of posters who assume that anyone who keeps a summer birthday child (particularly boys) are doing it to try to give their child an edge.  Most parents I know that are doing it are doing it because it is in their child's best interest, i.e., there are academic or social reasons for doing it or the private school requires it.  Furthermore, the only nonsummer birthday children I know who have been delayed were delayed for very good reasons having nothing to do with giving their children an unfair edge.  For example, I know a little boy with a February birthday who had to repeat a year of preschool because of speech and other developmental delays.  It was a tough and painful decision for his parents to make.  The last thing this little boy or his parents need to hear as he gets older is snide comments that they were somehow gaming the system to give him an advantage.  They are already worried enough that he is going to stick out like a sore thumb.   [/quote]

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