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[quote=Anonymous]Are there concerns now? How is she in class? With friends? How does she handle very structured time? The children I knew who moved ahead with their class but had birthdays very close to the cutoff struggled socially early and then had trouble with organization by grades 3/4. (I know a crew of them. One has no issues. Admittedly, my sample size is about 40 at this point.)

If there are no concerns now, go ahead and send her. You can always repeat a year somewhere along the way, usually by transferring schools. And if she sails through academically and you're concerned about sending a 17 year old to college, give her a gap year after high school.

Does she like to lead or is she content to follow? My aunt held her son back because the preschool teacher saw that he was really trying to lead everyone, but couldn't get a following among the older kids in his "grade." She held him and he just blossomed.

I'm sure there are plenty of stories going the other way, tho. What does your gut say? How big are the classes in the school she'd go to?[/quote]

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