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[quote=Anonymous]With an 8 year spread between our three kids we have a good feel for the change in philosophy at our school.  About 7 years ago a new LS Head started moving towards "older" classes.  Our youngest has a May birthday and they wanted to hold back on admitting to PreK.  It's a private school and they can run their school as they see fit but we don't have to play along.  We thanked them for their consideration and left.  They reconsidered and we enrolled youngest --- for the family's sake as much as anything.

Big mistake.  We spent way too much energy and time listening and responding to ridiculous evaluations and comparisons to older kids (there were 3 kids more than 12 months older). It did not bother us at all that our DC couldn't write sentences at the start of 1st grade or read chapter books.  We had two older children as a frame of reference and we knew DC was just fine.  It bothered us that some families took this stuff seriously and did all sorts of testing and hiring of tutors to "help" their perfectly normal and bright kids.

By 3rd grade our DC was cruising and they left us alone but what a waste of time.   [/quote]

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