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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish people would stop this nonsense of holding kids who are old enough for school unless there is a significant academic reason to do it.  My kid graduated from HS with kids who were 16 months older than he was.  These kids really should have been in the grade ahead.  It wasn't a problem in HS but it was an issue in elementary school.[/quote]

Seriously?  You do you. Let others do what they think is best for them. [/quote]

dp: We've been through this before on dcum, but...

This issue is everyone else's business because people holding kids back affects the peer group average age for all the other kids.  It's a vicious cycle.

Without a particular reason, everyone should send their kids on time.  Stop trying to game the system.

If your kid is smart, absolutely send them on time even if youngish.  Otherwise, you are doing a disservice to their brain.[/quote]

It really isn't a big impact. No one is talking about the absurd redshirting that boy parents do in hopes of earning that lax scholarship. We're talking about whether to send an August or September kid to PreK or K one year or the next. Our early September kid needed a bit more time for social development, so she did pre K twice. Maybe she raised the average age of her cohort by a couple of months. She wasn't the oldest nor would she have been the youngest had she not stayed back. It was the right decision for her. In contrast, I was a winter birthday and went "on time" (which meant K as a 4 year old in 1978). That worked fine for me but when they suggested to my parents that I also skip a grade, that was a hard no. [/quote]

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