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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But from your original post, I don't know what either of these means: "puts her back a year" or "the kids who start a year after". [/quote]

I also have no idea what this means.  I have read the entire thread and still am struggling to figure out what OP is talking about.

OP, how advanced to you think your child is?  How old is s/he now?

What would be an ideal birthday for you, if you think December is "late?"  (This is a serious question because December sounds perfectly fine to me and it's not very close to the cutoff.)

I have kids with birthdays both right before and right after the school cutoffs (I am talking just a couple of weeks, not 3 months) and we have done just fine both ways.  My kids are in the AAP Center, love school, and are doing great with stellar grades.

I would rethink signing up for Kumon or some such program.  If you child is in school full-day, do you really want their free time to be, essentially, more school?  I don't.  I want my kids to be playing outside with friends, practicing their instruments, going to sports practices, reading for pleasure.  Not sitting in another classroom environment doing more academic work with an instructor after they just spent 8 hours in elementary school.  I have been to places like Score and Kumon and always viewed it as remedial rather than enrichment.  The kids I knew who were going there were behind in reading or something and trying to get up to grade level.

Finally, reading early or above grade level does not mean your child is gifted or will be above grade level in other areas, nor does the ability to read upon entering kindergarten mean your child will be "bored" with the entire kindergarten curriculum.

I can't imagine choosing private school for the sole reason that my child's birthday is in December - I just don't understand that at all.  
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