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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public kindergarten has gotten really hard. If you have the means to send your kid to a private, play-based kindergarten, August is no problem. But a public school kindergarten as the youngest...yeesh. The kids are expected to be able to write letters and numbers and sit quietly and color in the lines, follow all classroom routines, etc from the very first day.

I'm sure some of it comes down to personality and preschool preparedness, but IMHO the summer kids look so tiny next to the "just after the cut-off" September kids.

I guess I don't really have any solid advice, just grateful to have the kid I have after a lot of struggle, so I also understand how sometimes you just go for it and trust that you'll figure the rest out later.[/quote]

I keep hearing how hard Kindergarten is these days and I just don't see it. We're in VA so the cutoff is 9/30. I sent my mid September birthday girl on time and she's had no trouble at all with the material, following directions, or with making friends, and she fits right in physically (95th percentile height). If anything, the one kid in the class who was redshirted (July birthday) is having the most trouble adjusting from what I have heard from her and other parents hearing the same thing from their own kid. [/quote]

Its hard on parents as they don't want to work to prepare their kids. Also, the play based preschools are a problem if they don't teach reading and the basics, so its a huge change to K.  We found public K very easy. Our September kid who want was bored.  They were aready reading and doing basic math before K.[/quote]

My August bday kid was also reading and doing math before K...and was at a play based preschool.  Kids learn a lot through play!  [/quote]

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