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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I have a child with a July 22 birthday who entered kindergarten last fall shortly after she turned 5 and honestly, at this point I wish we would have held her back. 6-8 kids in her class were 11-14 months older than her. She passed all the kindergarten benchmarks, is reading at a level C but she is also at the bottom of her class.

Your problem is people like OP. Your July child should not be in a kindergarten with kids 11-14 months older. That is insane.

Parenting has gone off the rails.[/quote]

[b]But how do you know that she is at the bottom of the class because of her birthday[/b]?  My son has a July birthday and is in the upper half of his K class.  There is only one child who is younger than him, all the rest are older by a good deal.  He is, however, more emotionally immature than a lot of the boys in his class.  I would have liked to have held him back for that reason, but his preschool would not allow him to repeat, and I had noplace else to put him.  [/quote]

I know because that is what her teacher told us and she brought up the possibility of having her repeat kindergarten.[/quote]

When my July birthday son was in kindergarten, I had several conversations with his teacher about being prepared for 1st grade.  I thought there was a good chance she would recommend he repeat K because he progressed very little academically - I think he had just progressed to A level from AA at the end of the year.  I was a bit surprised she never brought up the idea of repeating K but he went on to 1st grade as normal.  Finishing 1st grade, he is now reading at an end of 2nd grade reading level.  Socially it seemed as though he finally hit his stride near the end of the year but academically he has been performing as expected.  I never considered asking to have him held back and/or starting late, it seemed like it would create social problems for him to be the oldest kid in his class and I didn't want to put him in that position.  [/quote]

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