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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you give your son a handmade excuse for every failure.  It's not your fault you didn't study for your math test; mommy didn't consider how lazy you'd be 11 years ago when she shipped you to Kindy!

Going to school on time is not why he took an extra year to graduate college.  Possibly being raised by parents who told him, [b]"it's not your fault, you're 3 months younger than your BFF how can you be held to the same standard??!"[/b] is the reason, though.[/quote]

Three months can make a big difference when you’re a kid.[/quote]

There will always be three month differences with kids in school!   No, it’s not a big difference once they are past preschool.   Not at all.   [/quote]

Ok but then the 3 months older a redshirted August kid is to an on-time October kid equally makes no difference.[/quote]

That would be a 14-month difference.[/quote]

No, a redshirted August kindergartener turns six the first week of school. The on time October birthday turns six the 8th-12th week of school. [/quote]

Yes those kids are only a few weeks apart in age. That's how we end up with so many 18yr old seniors that people like PP refuse to acknowledge the existence of.[/quote]

OMG. The real question is what is the age difference between the youngest child in the class and the eldest. Don’t be obtuse

Poor families need the free childcare of public school to be able  to work so they tend to “ green shirt” their kids ie send them as early as possible so possibly 4 to K. Middle class families want to get every advantage that they can get so redshirt to make sure their kid is the eldest, so possibly 6 . The consequence is that the real time gap between the youngest and eldest in the classroom is over 12 months. Malcolm Gladwells research concluded that even in a 12 month age range there is a significant advantage to being on the older side academically and athletically so common sense should tell you that increasing that 12 month gap further will exacerbate the inequality. 
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4yr olds don’t belong in kindergarten. NY is completely behind the times. I don’t blame parents for doing the right thing.[/quote]

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