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[quote=Anonymous]I would look for a private K and see how he does. Church schools often have inexpensive private K and a lot of them participate with local after school places for after care if you need it. See how he does there with the benefit of the smaller class sizes and such. You can easily repeat K in public if needed and they won’t give you a hard time about it.

You cannot (the vast majority of the time although there are rare exceptions) repeat public K. Once you start public school, they are going to push and push a kid through the grades no matter what. This becomes a potential problem when the academic expectations get higher in 2nd and certainly in 3rd grade. They push kids through who are very behind in reading in particular with the excuses, “oh every kid learns at their own pace” etc. then suddenly you have a 2nd/3rd grader reading at a K level and now it’s your own problem to fix with your own time and $$$ because the school’s interventions generally won’t do crap. [/quote]

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