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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here - birthday is late August. When the school said they wanted to chat, I had a feeling it would be to ask to have my child considered for first, rather than second.[/quote] Definitely fine. This is very commonplace. See all of the threads on redshirting. DC will probably not even be the oldest in their grade.[/quote] [b]It is not commonplace to put children below their academic level. [/b] The overwhelmingly vast majority of children across the entire US are in the grade for their age. [/quote] This would be my concern. I would only do this if the school offered appropriate academic acceleration options. If DC is doing well academically, then they will be bored if doing first grade work, right? I had a friend who held back her DC for social reasons at a school where there weren't a lot of acceleration opportunities. He spent his early elementary years being very, very bored and needing a lot of supplementation at home.[/quote] Then he would’ve been bored in any grade most likely. It’s not like 2nd grade is that much more academically advanced than 1st[/quote]
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