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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, is this child attending McDonough? I also live in Baltimore and McD takes redshirting to an entirely different level than the other privates. [/quote]

No, Gilman. [/quote]

you are so gross OP. gossip!![/quote]

Yes OP is disgusting, gossiping about a child who.is likely identifiable now. That is supremely horrid behavior. Wow. [/quote]

A couple things.
It's McDonogh. No "u" in it. 
And the kid won't be identifiable. Pre-First is a standard Baltimore thing. There are full classes of kids, so this kid is one of many. He is going to be entirely typical among his Gilman peers.

Because it's a standard thing, if you choose not to do a Pre-First year for your kid born in the second half/fourth quarter (depending on the school) of the academic year, your kid may be at a significant disadvantage until things even out at the older ages. I don't know any parents who weren't pleased with Pre-First and I don't know a single kid who feels like it was a bad thing. Probably because it's part of the private school culture here. It's also common for kids who go to Jemicy to repeat a year if they transfer to one of the mainstream privates, so there are a whole bunch of ways kids end up older for grade than someone not part of the culture would expect.

My child is a summer birthday, was not redshirted and did not attend Pre-First, attends a Baltimore private, and does just fine. When you get to be 14 years old, if you're reasonably competent, you are capable of competing academically with a 16 year old, especially if the 14 and 16 year old have been on a similar academic trajectory. The 16 year old might have some advantages, but not enough to be of issue. I find contact sports more concerning, but that's easy to solve by avoiding contact sports.[/quote]

I have a September kid who we did push ahead and I cannot imagine doing pre-first and now being a year behind (and he does have SN, which he's outgrowing and adapting) as the curriculum is so slow and he's doing well at school, has friends and great on standardized tests.  If anything moving him forward and challenging him is far better (though he'd be in gifted if we didn't but I don't care about that).  I have no interest in my child doing contact sports but does sports he enjoys.  Pre-First is a big scam and a huge money maker for schools.  They can take more kids/claim smaller classes in the early years and make an extra year's tuition.

If your child isn't ready, that's on you as a parent. Sure, its easier to hold them back.  Everyone is so into the play based preschools they forget the kids need a basic academic foundation and if both the preschool and parents didn't do that, then you as a parent failed them and it isn't that they aren't ready but its that they are not prepared.  If your child needs to be held back, as a parent, they should be in private services to catch them up.  Time isn't a gift if you failed to prepare them.[/quote]

:roll: it's not about academic content. it's about kids being immature, far at one end of the developmetal spectrum and youngest for the class. [/quote]

Being younger is not being immature.  They are age appropriate for their age and the schools need to treat them age appropriately as do the parents. Its not fair to call kids immature as they are younger.  The older kids held back are the immature ones as they are not with similar peers and with younger kids, so of course they act younger/ seem less mature.  My child, who is a year+ younger than his friends, is not immature.  He is age appropriate as are they.[/quote]

You are not very bright are you?[/quote]

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