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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't redshirt my late summer birthday kid, and he is now disrupting the hell out of your kids' K class (seriously, emails home every single week)  If we hold him back, people will complain about the K who is red shirted and making their kids look and feel dumb when he has no obvious special needs.

Maybe the 7 year old K has no obvious special needs BECAUSE he has been red shirted and thus given more time to mature.[/quote]

If you hold your late summer birthday kid back, they will not be 7 in K.  I think most people are ok enough with holding late summer kids back, but in the case of my kid's K class, there is a boy who turned 7 in December.  He's 21 months older than the youngest kid in the class.  He didn't have cancer or lyme disease.  He's a bit disruptive, but really just seems very old to be in K.  I know he has some learning/behavior issues and I'm not sure 1st grade would be better for him (meaning he'd be equally disruptive) but the giant age gap is notable. [/quote]

He would have been better off being in 1st with his peers and parents getting services both in school and out of school.  Holding back does not fix learning or behavioral problems in less kids are also given the tools to succeed.[/quote]

I love how everyone has the answers for this kid who they don't even know.  You don't know his issues, you don't know what's been done to address them, you don't know about how many nights his parents spent agonizing over decisions of what they should do.  Let it go.[/quote]

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