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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading these threads, I really wonder whether it's the kids who are not "ready" to start school or whether it's that the parents aren't ready to send the kids.  Some of the examples given as reasons for redshirting are ridiculous - sports, camp, dealing with mean girls, worries about whether 10 years down the road she'll be able to handle high school boys.  If you think being the youngest is going to be a challenge for your kid - so what? That's not necessarily a bad thing.  Why not help your kid rise to the occasion by giving them skills to handle different kinds of environments?

And guess what? Your kids will be just fine even if they're the last ones in their friend group to get their driver's license, or they start high school at age 14, or they don't turn 18 until just before starting college. [/quote]

DP.  I sent my September birthday DS on time, as did several of my friends.  Others held their August/September birthday DCs back a year.

All of the on-time kids struggled, including mine, for years.  All of the held-back kids did not struggle, in K or 1st or 2nd.

You can laugh off kindergarten if you like.  From firsthand experience, I now know that [b]it's developmentally inappropriate[/b].  [/quote]

It's developmentally inappropriate to send your kid to school on time??[/quote]

The way they do kindergarten now, yes.  [/quote]

If that's the case, then why haven't they changed the cut off dates? [b]If it's such a widespread problem, why isn't it addressed at a higher level within the school system?  [/b]

Perhaps because it's NOT widespread and plenty of late summer/early fall kids do just fine, even if yours did not.[/quote]

Actually, Kindergarten cutoff dates HAVE shifted back a LOT in the past few decades. For example, in 1990 the K cutoff date was 12/31 in MD, 10/31 in 2005, and now it's 9/1. (This is among many, many other examples of states moving their cutoff dates back to September in the past decade or two). It was 12/31 as late as 2010 in DC. Nebraska changed their cutoff date to 7/31 a few years ago, Arkansas signed their 8/1 cutoff date into law in 2011, and Indiana signed their 8/1 cutoff into law in March 2018. [/quote]

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