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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP, I am an early October birthday. I started K at 4. It was in California, though.

The only time it posed any issues was in later teen years when I was always the last of my peers to get a driver's license, turn 18, turn 21, etc. But in hindsight, that wasn't very traumatic. And it's balanced now by the fact that I'm the last to hit 40, etc. Turnabout is fair play. [/quote]

In California at that time, the cut off was 31 December (I don't know if they changed it since then, but I have a 29 year old friend who went to school in California and that was the cut off date when he was there.)  An October birthday there was well before the cut off, so there would be lots of other kids with similar birthdays. Very different from being almost a month younger than the next youngest kid in the class.

No matter how smart a child is, he or she still is developing physically and emotionally. Intellectual, physical, and emotional development all take place at different rates and advancement in one does not guarantee advancement in the others. [/quote]

Your blanket statement about California is incorrect. I grew up in CA as well, but in our school district, schools started in mid August and the cutoff was August 31st. I have an early September birthday, and my parents somehow got me in the year I turned 5 by keeping me at preschool until after my birthday. I'm guessing there were a lot more loopholes in the 80s than there are now. [/quote]

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