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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you send him to a small private kindergarten, which will probably cost about the same as preschool, and see how he does. Not great - repeat kindergarten when entering public school. Great - enter public school in first grade.

(Public school kindergarten sucks, by the way. I sent two kids through it, and it was like pre-k in terms of barely academic, but much higher expectations for sitting still. My boy did ok but hated it and emotionally wrung out every day from so much sitting; my girl liked it. But I was never impressed with the curriculum and overcrowding. First grade much, much better.)[/quote]

I love this idea and this is what I would do.   I feel there are good arguments in your case for red shirting and not. It is still unclear which will be best.  A year in kindergarten at a private school he be perfect.  PP is right about public K being terrible.  If you sent him the to private K and thought he needed repeating, I’d keep him in the private K for a second year.  Only transfer to public school when he is ready for 1st [/quote]

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