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[quote=Anonymous]We're in Baltimore where "Pre-First" is an actual class in many schools, so you can send your kid on time to K, then do Pre-First, then move on to First.

Our summer birthday child didn't do Pre-First and it was the correct choice for our child, who is currently a senior in high school, had fantastic college admission results, and has been one-foot-out-of-the-door towards college since last summer. Holding DC back would have been a mistake. However, if we had held DC back, DC would have had different experiences and those might have resulted in a child who was also in exactly the right place. I suspect that's the typical result. Whatever decision you make is likely to turn out just fine, because you'll be raising the child you have, dealing with the experiences the child is dealing with, and supporting them through them. I know that doesn't help.

I told myself, when we decided to skip the extra year for our child, that if needed there would the opportunity to repeat a year in middle school, or high school, or taking a gap year before college. There has never been a need or a desire for any of those things. Would I like to have DC home for another year? Absolutely! But it would be for me, not for DC. DC's ready to conquer the world.[/quote]

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