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[quote=Anonymous]"I was the poster that earlier asked why you would even consider it. And I knew we would hear from "that mom" right away. You know...the one whose kid is "thriving" despite being young.

I should have clarified two things. First, I spent years teaching K and 1st grade.

Second, I have a daughter who could have gone to Kindergarten early. The state we were in at the time allowed early admission by testing. She would have easily passed. She is graduating from high school this year. She has a 4.45 GPA and is a National Merit Scholar. She has always tested very high and has excelled in every AP course she has taken. Nothing we did. We have other kids who are more typical."

And, we all knew we would hear from you.  The mom who made a decision not to do EEK and now passes it off as the only right decision.  Geez, if parenting were that easy, someone would have written the manual and we could all buy it on Amazon so we could insure that we'd turn out perfect kids.

In MoCo, there are three ways a kid becomes eligible for kindergarten:  if they are five by the cutoff date of September 1; if they turn six prior by September 1 and received a waiver the previous year; and if they turn five within six weeks after the cutoff date and pass an assessment.  Based on these rules, you can have kids with birthdays between 9/2/2005 to 10/15/2007 all in the same 2012 kindergarten class.   Given the wide range of options (and the wide range of abilities of kids), all that any of us can do is try to make the best decision we can for our kids and if it doesn't work out, get them the supports they need to be successful.[/quote]

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