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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not familiar with "Junior First".  Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year?   He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.  [/quote]

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option[/quote]

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims.  So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first."  In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

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Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years.  He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class.  Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class.  He will do first grade the year after that.  So he is being "held back" one year.  The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.  [/quote]

Im not pro redshirting but I am starting to think this is not a good example. I think it’s ok if a kid has special needs. This transistion class sounds like he needs extra help.[/quote]

I have met him a few times at social gatherings- he does not have any (obvious) special needs, he seems like a normal kid and last I saw him he was reading an early reader book by himself actually so I know he can read.  I agree that I'd never be annoyed at a special needs kid being held back a year.  It truly seems like this is for competitive advantage and it's why it bothers me, just knowing that my son will already be at a disadvantage and then seeing richer people who have the money to do something like spend an extra 25-30k on a transition year to make their kid just that much older than mine when it comes to things like high school admissions (if we choose private for high school) or college admissions, or just in general for my kid's self esteem that he will be so much smaller and less mature than these kids in the same grade as him! (if this is what public will be like) [/quote]

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