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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 13 year old DD is the youngest (Sept birthday)  She does fine and fits in well socially but I just wish things were easier for her.  There is so much pressure for good grades, good experiences, good opportunities and she often says "Things would be better if I was in 7th grade instead."  I think things would come more easily and that in turn would boost her confidence.

I am already planning to encourage her to take a gap year before college.  [/quote]

So did she start school a year early, then? Or was Sept. 1 not the cutoff date then? [/quote]

Sept 1 is a recent MCPS cutoff.  When my 14yo started kindergarten, IIRC the cutoff was 12/31.  Each year after that MCPS moved the cutoff back by one month, until it landed on 9/1.

FWIW, my second DS was K-eligible the year the cutoff was 9/31.  His birthday is in late September and we waited.  No regrets; he is now in sixth grade and doing great - we are 99% sure that things would not have gone so well had we sent him "on time" (which, a year later, would have been "early").[/quote]

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