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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If schools don't want parents to redshirt, they need to tone down the early elementary years. Otherwise, we will continue to have kids who turn 7 in kindergarten. [/quote]

Kindergarten needs to be developmentally appropriate for five year olds.[/quote]

And 4 year olds of the cut off is going to include them (and it does in at least 16 states and D.C.).[/quote]

Exactly. My DS was going to be 5 years + 5 days on the first day of school if we sent him on time and I didn't want him sitting in school focused on academics for 6 hours with just two short recesses. It's not age appropriate. So another year of play-based preschool before sending him a year later.

I don't care if he's the youngest or oldest - just that it's a good environment for him. 
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I have a September kid, so he turned 5 that year.  How is it not appropriate?  Your preschool did not prepare your child.  Ours did and the transition was easy.  My kid hates recess and would hate 2 or anything longer than it is.  They aren't sitting.  [/quote]

When was he in K? There is a lot of sitting these days. And maybe he doesn't like recess because he never learned how to play in preschool. Sounds like he went to a preschool that doesn't understand child development. Poor kid. 
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