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[quote=Anonymous]My DS was born middle of the year so it never really crossed our minds to hold him back.  He has severe ADHD and a big part has been social and emotional delays.  He's bright but completely uneven academically due to his LD but holding back would weaken supports in his areas of strength and wouldn't address his LD.

But back to K ... it was disastrous.  People say "yeah but they all survive K" or "it's just K" and I want to throat punch them.  I went to register DS2 for K the other day and felt sick to my stomach just walking into the building.  We pulled DS out in April of K on the advice of his doctors due to concern for depression and suicide.  He's been two years in a really supportive private school now and he's mostly recovered though he has stress habits that will probably stick with him for life.  The thing is, I'm not sure delaying a year to do public K would really have made anything better.  Two years have made a world of difference in his maturity level and ability to regulate himself, but I think we would have been in the same or similar situation if we'd just started the same road last year instead of 2 years ago.  The problem was the whole environment, his inability to deal with it, our not having supports in place for him, and getting no help from the school beyond in classroom accommodations from the teacher.

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