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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]    I hate this. Hate this hate this.

I should be able to send my March bday 5yo to kindergarten the following fall without being worried that he'll be toward the bottom of the pack in size, self-control, concentration etc. Full day mandatory kindergarten is bad enough. K should be centers and free play and recess and alphabets. Not worksheets and reading groups. He's a bright kid and will do just fine, but it shouldn't even be on my RADAR as a concern.

Put your kid in school!

At least you are honest--you want someone else to have the youngest kid. [/quote]

Original PP here. As it stands now, classrooms have an 18+ month range. 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]

Your son will absolutely not be the youngest and probably in the middle of the class. Being a May birthday the teachers will assume there is a learning issue, even if he does not have a formal ELP. Most redshirt with in 2 months of cut off. Not 4 months plus. If the district age norms AAP testing this mother will be posting about wishing she did NOT redshirt.  [/quote]

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