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[quote=Anonymous]In general, most preschools (and many daycares, which at preschool age will usually be structured like a preschool) have relatively hard age boundaries. Your son is nowhere near a cut-off date, so you can expect that they will want to move him with his age cohort.

Also note that at those young ages, ratios matter. For instance, they are almost certain to object to a 3-year-old being with the twos, because their legally-mandated teacher-child ratio is smaller in the twos. So they will not want to keep a kid in the younger classroom if they can avoid doing so.

Also, it's nonsensical to do it at the earlier age. Two and three-year olds are really different from each other in both physical and cognitive aspects. Ditto three and four year olds. And you will see very different constructs and expectations for things like the potty, food, etc.

You have no idea what your kid will be like a few years down the line. Redshirting a kid who is developmentally normal and capable of doing age-appropriate schoolwork and behaving in an age-appropriate way doesn't make sense, and many schools will push back if that's what you want to do.

Make that decision as late as possible, and don't repeat anything. If for some reason you absolutely insist on redshirting (such as wanting your kid to have an edge for sports), do a transitional K year.[/quote]

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