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[quote=Anonymous]I'm interested in this topic, so I am conducting my own anecdotal study on my own children  :lol:   In general, absent extenuating circumstances, I believe in sending my kids to school on time however they fall within the cutoff.  My oldest has a summer bday and my younger two have winter bdays.

My school aged kids attend FCPS.  In general I believe in play based preschool and I don't go out of my way to teach my kids to read before K.

My oldest started K on time.  He didn't know how to read before K.  In grades K-2 he was never in the highest reading group, and never had "above" on his report card in grades 1-2 for reading level when that started in 1st grade.  The NNAT and Cogat are age normed, and he happened to do really well on the Cogat (no prep) and he tested in to the pool for AAP, and was admitted on the first round.  He received an 11 GBRS - and I do think the lower GBRS was possibly due to him being younger / less mature.  He was also never flagged for Level II AAP in grades 1-2.  Now he's in 4th grade at the AAP center, and since starting there in 3rd grade, his report card says "above" for reading level.  I really don't know everyone's birthdays but I seem to encounter more summer bday boys at the Center than at our base school in his grade, so my initial read is that there may be fewer redshirted kids in his AAP cohort at the center.  This kid has a lot of grit, and I do kind of chalk that up to him being young for his grade and having to keep up with the older kids.

Now my middle kid is in 1st grade (winter bday).  He taught himself to read CVC words on his own before K.  In K, and now in 1st grade - he's in the highest reading group and his report card in first grade flags him for Level II AAP.  Now, he hasn't taken the Cogat yet, but he did do worse on the NNAT that DC1.  I think a lot of things come easily to him, and I see him get frustrated on the rare occasions something does not come as easily to him.  I think he may not test in or get into AAP, which is fine, but I also do think he would likely have a higher GBRS than DC1.

DC3 is in preschool.

ANYWAY those are just my random comments.  They'll probably all have similar educational outcomes coming from the same family - but I just think all of this is interesting and it's maybe not what I would have predicted.  Well, I suppose I am still surprised at how poorly DC2 did on the NNAT and probably also at how well DC1 did on COGAT but DC1 is really thriving academically at the Center so maybe I should stop being surprised.  [/quote]

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