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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in kindergarten now.  He's one of the youngest children in his class, with an early April birthday.  We've been to several birthday parties this month for[b] boys in his class who are turning seven[/b].  My son is more immature than a number of his classmates and struggles with his fine motor skills.  However, he's doing great in almost all his academic areas and keeps up quite nicely with the kids a full year older than him.  I think my son would have been bored out of his mind if we'd kept him in pre-k another year, and I could see that leading to behavior problems.   I really think it's depends on the child.  Most of the kids in my son's school who were held back a year were held back starting PK-3 or between PK-3 and PK-4. [/quote]

In the Kindergarten? And they are not even summer boys? 
Where is the end of it? Should I have hold back my March boy then?[/quote]

this is really difficult and becoming more and more so.
Even though the decision to redshirt the redshirters may have been right for THEM and going well for various reasons, I DO see it impacting the boys and girls that are sent on time.  The MYOB and do what is right for your own child's development is not really working here anymore from every perspective, when the whole makeup of a class is developmentally more and more skewed. I mean a few redshirted kids, no one would think anything of it, but when it becomes half the class or more, it is an entirely different scenario.
An April birthday child being the youngest, and celebrating birthdays of classmates 2 years older at some point, just cannot be the new standard, can it?  But maybe it already is?

I know that I will struggle with this decision when the time comes! 
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