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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Start in 3rd along with most of the other children. It's better for social reasons and math progress.[/quote]

From a longtime AAP parent (child started in third and did it all the way through MS): This post is right. It's socially harder and harder with each passing year to change schools, so go ahead and do it in third grade. And yes, it helps with math progression so your child is on the same page as the rest of the class. Our DD's elementary AAP center had one or two kids who came in new each year, and while they did fine both academically and socially, I know from talking with their parents that they all wished they had started AAP in third and just gone all the way through, rather than waiting. Bear in mind, that's just some parents, at one center, but it's what I found.

As for the conflict in above posts about "fourth grade is nothing but history" or "no, it's not" -- we found that each grade had plenty of every subject.

Not sure where the "odd and even year" myth came from, OP. That's a new one to me. It's just not so; please don't give it any credence and if you know parents who go around saying that -- please tell them to ask an elementary AAP teacher who can let them know this is just pure myth.[/quote]

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