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[quote=Anonymous]Hold him back, here is why:
1. Because something does not feel to you quite right to send him on time.
2. Because you always followed your gut and when you did you never rerated. 
3. Because you are giving him one extra year of childhood when the childhood that used to be much longer and happier for the past generations, and now kids are tied up to the desk from early on.
4. Because K is not a play based anymore, like it used to be few years back. Now it is all academic, stress and a kid is being evaluated all the time by everyone and all goes on record. 
5. Because he will have a whole life ahead of him to chop chop chop and one year does not make difference whatsoever ont he grand scale of things.. what difference it make if he graduates one year earlier, works one year longer, retires one year earlier?... honestly ask your own parents..  grandparents.. think about it. 
6. Because for him now one year it is one fifth of his existence, of his age.. it is one fifth of his life, it is a lot to give or take away from childhood. If you compare it to later life, it is like you added or take away 12 years from the  60 year old.
7. Because he can learn so much in one year now and he can be so much better prepared for the first grade and do so much better.
8. Because he will have one year to emotionally and physically mature and be on the same level then the strongest kids in the class.
9. And by the flip, if you send him now he will be on the youngest end, least mature. 
10. Because this will give him more confidence overall, not being the smallest kid in the classroom.

Sending a small  young kid on time is like sending a kid before time and can have damaging long lasting effect and destroy all you were building now, the confidence and self esteem.

Many people redshirt kids simply to send them in time for their maturity. The kids mature at different rate and nobody knows better then you. NO teacher, nobody, but you do. You also have child's best interest in your mind, nobody else does to the same degree as you do.

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