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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Above poster adding that I like the idea that he could take a gap year after high school if he wants and still enter college at 19.

In the younger grades, you do have to make sure your age appropriate son is not being compared developmentally and emotionally to the kids that are over a year older than him. [/quote]

What good is a gap year if they were not as ready or mature in high school as they should have done and the grades reflect that? The damage is done.[/quote]

Why hold a perfectly ready child back at kindergarten? If you see the child struggling at 8th, then reassess. You don’t have that option if you hold your kid back at K unless you want to have them be 2 years older than the other kids in their graduating class. My July 8th grader is doing well and I’m glad we started him on time. I don’t think any future struggles in high school would be different if he was a year older.

We didn’t consider gap year timing when he started K as we didn’t consider holding him back. But when posts like this, it crosses my mind. [/quote]

Because kindergarten is just one year? We thought ahead thru senior year not just whether a 4 yr old could keep pace. It's a journey, not a race. My July 7th grader is also doing well and as it turned out he's a very late bloomer. It would have been a disaster to be the smallest and youngest 8th grader. No regrets.[/quote]

Does your school year start in July? If not, your child would have been 5, not 4 when he could have started kindergarten.  We also thought it through and felt like our child was ready to start his journey on time with his peers and didn’t need the extra year and be older than most. We’re certainly not trying to win a race (if we were trying to “win” we would have held him back to get that advantage). Glad it’s working out for both of us.

Someone has to be the smallest in any group. I looked at the middle school boys (grades 6-8) at my son’s school and realized we would have needed to keep him back two years in order for him be in the taller half and he still wouldn’t be the tallest in the grade. [/quote]

Oh well. Better your kid is the smallest and youngest than mine. And school starts early August where i live.
Still no regrets. [/quote]

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