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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Original PP here.[b] As it stands now, classrooms have an 18+ month range.[/b] I actually don't mind him being the youngest--I mind him being the youngest by well over a year. I mind having schools that have unreasonable expectations of 5yos because half the kids are a year older. I mind that so many kids are being denied an opportunity to start school on time because parents who would otherwise send them are worried about the red-shirt cohort. It's distorting the whole system. For the kids who really need an extra, I have the utmost understanding. My brother repeated kindergarten because my parents gave it a go (August bday), and it would probably been better if he'd repeated preschool instead. But the child from this example has a perfectly reasonable birthday and seems to be on a perfectly reasonable development trajectory. The only gain I see here is at the expense of his classmates.[/quote] Bravo. Exactly.[/quote]
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