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[quote=Anonymous]OP again - thanks. It is also good to know that the possibility of skipping from 1st to 2nd is there - I suspect we might get there, although if he seems to be doing ok behaviorally, we won't push it and will continue to teach at home in addition to school. I myself went to college at 17 and there is benefit in taking a 'year off' to work, mature, and investigate career options, rather than diving into a major you're unsure of. (DH did this at 18/19.) DH is dyslexic and if #1 has it too (hard to tell now), then reading/writing will be where he'll need work.

We definitely want to keep him in the public school system if at all possible, but if things don't work out during K at public school next year, then we'll reconsider. The problem is, once you are in private, you tend to get ahead of the public curriculum, so it makes sense to go all the way with one or the other, or switch from public-to-private later on.

The daycare technically calls the 4's class a 'pre-K' year so we'll keep him in that...I think it might make things worse if we do a private K first and then a public K and there's a lot of repetition. 
My kid has been in FT preschool since 2.5 (as part of his daycare), with a teacher certified in preschool curriculums, so it's not like he hasn't been prepped for K. The problem is, he was taught SO well, he's more than ready now!

I'm just wondering, when I was growing up there was a post-K, pre-1st year that some kids were placed in if they weren't yet ready for 1st grade. Do those exist anymore? Or is that why they draw the line so sharply with age now, so that doesn't happen?[/quote]

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