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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Unless your kid is super super advanced, it doesn’t make sense to push ahead - consider high school (last one to drive) [/quote]
Kids these days drag their feet on getting a driver's license.  It's not a big deal like it used to be.

[quote]or college (going to college needing parents to sign for anything). [/quote]
This will be a thing for like a month and a half?

I have a November birthday (youngest in class), and was always top of my class, and never felt different from the "older" kids in the class.  OP, you know your kid -- if he's ready for school, see what you can do to send him.  If he could benefit from an extra year of maturity, then don't.[/quote]

+1 to all of this from another November baby who was youngest in the class, top of the class, and never felt different.[/quote]

This was me too - November birthday and the youngest in the class, top of the class, and never had any issues. However here's the difference: I (female) grew up in a foreign country (the school year cutoff there was 8/31 instead of 9/30) where the education mostly emphasized on academics and obedience, and don't care as much about sports or social skills. As a smart and academically advanced girl, I certainly benefited from it. My parents definitely made the right decision to send me to school a year early.

However, now I live in the US and are raising two boys. Knowing how important sports and social skills are in the US schools, I would never do the same to my kids (especially boys) if they had November or mid/late October birthdays. It may be a tough call if the kids just missed the cutoff by a few days (i.e. very early October birthdays) and they are very advanced both physically and academically. Luckily my kids have December and March birthdays, so I don't have to worry about making a tough decision like that.

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