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[quote=Anonymous]My son has a late June birthday and I agree with PP's that at two it's way to early to know.  IF you don't think he's ready when he's in a 4yr old preschool class then you'd send him to a "jr kindergarten" program.

FWIW, we sent DS on time.  We and the preschool had no concerns -- he was very social, confident, already reading and doing math above K level.  He did have issues with behavior in school which we blamed on immaturity.  After a couple years we had some discussions and evaluation with the school counselor and I said then I questioned if we should have held him back but her take on it was that if we'd held him back he'd still be having problems but out of boredom rather than immaturity so she thought we were right to start K on time.  He was eventually diagnosed with ADHD which might have been ID'd sooner if we weren't blaming his issues on being young for his grade.  He's in HS now and doing very well.

All that to say, it's really hard to know long-term how these decisions will play out and you just have to look at the 4-5 yr old (not 2 yr old!) you have and do what makes sense for that child at that time.  [/quote]

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