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[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]
I have two summer bday kids who were not reshirted.  I used to get notes sent home, too, though not every week.  My DS got more notes sent home than my DD.  Pretty stereotypical, but it's true, boys do seem to have less self control and are less mature.

It will pass.  I talked to DS's 2nd grade teacher about his seemingly lack of ability to sit still for more than 10sec.  She said, "Don't worry. It's normal".  DS is now 10 and can sit still for much longer now.  BTW, DS is in a gifted program, and if we had redshirted, he'd have been bored half to death.  He's already somewhat bored at times in school.  He is smaller and less mature than most of the kids, but he will catch up in a couple of years.  We've had talks about him being one of the youngest in class and what that means.

Hang in there.[/quote]

Had the same experience with my DS (late June birthday).  During a particularly difficult stretch in 3rd grade we had several talks with the school counselor and I said then that perhaps it would have been better to hold him back a year but her opinion was that he'd still have been having trouble but out of boredom rather than immaturity and that is harder to deal with.[/quote]

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