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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are overthinking this, OP.  Your child was born days prior to the cutoff.  It is too early to make a decision as a lot can happen developmentally between now and late-August.

Ask the preschool teachers why they recommend he wait a year — it is simply age-based, or it is immaturity, trouble following directions or other classroom behavior?[/quote]

+1 People get irritated at the parents of the redshirted kid who is born 6 months before the cutoff, without no obvious developmental issues, but the parents decided to hold him back because he wasn't yet reading Cat in the Hat before kindergarten and his parents were afraid he would be average.  And then when the kid enters kindergarten, he's like 1.5 years oldest than the youngest kid.[/quote]

This.  And it's worse when they start complaining that their kid isn't challenged, and I'm thinking, your kid isn't some kind of genius, he's just way older than the other kids.  If you were so worried about him being challenged, maybe you should have sent him to school with his cohort.

I also don't like the way that higher SES parents use it to confer some advantage on their already-advantaged child, when it's an option that's not really available to lower SES kids because their parents can't afford the extra year of child care.  [/quote]

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