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[quote=Anonymous]I have an August bday girl not redshirted.  I don't think that being the youngest in a class is ideal; however, I don't think that red shirting would have worked either.  In our case our daughter is very tall and I did not want my daughter walking around like the giant in Gulliver's Travels.  She's the tallest in the class as it is.  She also likes school a lot-loves structure, always loved circle time in preschool.  The preschool teachers all said SEND HER.  She's somewhat less sophisticated than some of her classmates, but you'd be surprised that some of the oldest kids are not necessarily the smartest or most socially sophisticated.  Nor are they necessarily the kids with the best impulse control.  My approach to the whole thing was that given no evidence of learning disabilities or inability to (usually) comply with teacher directions, it was time to enroll.  My daughter is involved in extra curricular activities in which she has been one of the older kids in the group with most kids a grade level behind.  I can see in that setting that she's more mature than the others.  But the classroom dynamic is going okay.  By the way in the classroom when she was in the younger elem grades (when I went to observe or volunteer), all the girls were compliant with teacher directions (usually) and most of the boys had problems sitting still at least in K and 1st.  So there may be more issues with boys who are close to the age cutoff.  One thing to consider, OP, is how is your child's handwriting?  They get a lot into writing in K and if she's behind in that area you might talk with preschool teachers, the ped, even an OT and decide whether that would be a deal breaker for entering K.  There's no magic solution here, your child will be fine in the long run either way.[/quote]

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