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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Remember the days when parents wanted their kids to skip a grade so they weren't bored?  Redshirting of spring birthdays, and even summer birthdays, just so they are perceived as more mature, intelligent, is really doing a disservice to the kids.

Sent my late August birthday kid to school on time, and yes, there were kids who recently turned 7 months before he turns 6.  I'm of the opinion that age cutoffs should not be negotiable absent some serious issue.  I'm so glad I sent my young kid on time, because he is challenged and NOT bored, and now gets to expand his horizons even more as other kids his age are just about to start K.[/quote]
+1.  I don't understand at all why OP would redshirt a May bday kid who is on track academically and socially.  FWIW, I have an August bday boy in DCPS where cutoff is Septmeber 30th, so he's the second youngest in his class.  Just finished 1st grade at age 6 and is reading and doing math at a 4th grade level.  I think he'd be bored to death if I had held him back.  Unless a kid has real social problems, I can't imagine holding back a kid who is doing well academically.  Seems like it would be terrible for the kid.[/quote]

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