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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the K teacher who posted earlier, and OP, based on the details you have provided, I see absolutely no reason for you to hold him back.  I taught in MCPS for 10 years before deciding last year to take time off and stay home with twins, so I'm not too far removed from MCPS K scene.  He is your baby, and it's hard to envision him as a grown-up kindergartner, but in September, he will be.  Trust me, they are ALL babies when the school year starts!  Are you looking at current kindergartners as a judge of his readiness?  Current K kids are halfway to first grade--you should be measuring him against his current peers, if anyone.  If he is fitting in well with them now, he will continue to do so in K.  His teacher will know that he's on the younger side, and if he needs a little more TLC, he'll get what he needs.  All the kids are going to be active, and that is built into the school day.

As you've said maturity is not an issue, if you wait and send him next year, he will be far more mature than his classmates, and that's not a good situation for him either.  In fact, if he has been in a daycare/preschool program since 15 months, he will likely be ahead of some of his classmates.  Some kids come in with no school experience at all.  Academically, the students will be all over the place.  His readiness or interest in learning should not be a factor in this decision.  If you had said he was immature when compared to his peers, I would probably say a junior K or half-day private K would be an option worth considering.  But with what you've said, I say have faith in him and let him go.  Otherwise, you will literally be "holding him back."

And to the PP who said others will hold back, in 10 years of teaching I have had ONE student who was red-shirted, and that was a kid who had a developmental delay.  I think it's a topic that is talked about frequently on DCUM, but in reality rarely done.  Every year, I always have some kids who just turned five and some who are about to turn six.  It all evens out, and it's never obvious who is who.[/quote]

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