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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This bugs me to death. My DD is one of the youngest in her private school.  She has a late July birthday and they have an August cut off.  Kids in her class are up to 2 years younger.  In the younger grades she had to work harder than everyone else but now that she is older she has caught up.[/quote]
Two years older, you mean?  If I read you right, that means a full 11 months older than the August cut off. And you reference multiple kids at or beyond 11 months older than cut off. If so, that's significant. Please tell us all what school that is!  Help us be informed shoppers!  TIA. [/quote]
I meant my DD is up to 2 years younger.  A kid in my DS kindergarten is repeating for "maturity" only.  I think in that case the parents can't stand their snowflake not being number 1 in the class.  I had to deal with my DD having a "reading" problem at the beginning of first grade because while she was barely 6 there were almost 8 year olds in the class...such BS.  My kids go to a parochial school in Maryland.  A few friends hinted that I should red shirt my DD to give her the advantage but I didn't and didn't realize how extensive it was until we got into the school.

For the poster who mentioned DCPS, they encourage kids to start early/ on time because kids so many kids in poverty lose focus early.

For the PP who mentioned Gladwell's book, Gladwell also said that while being the oldest is an advantage holding your kid back has long term negative consequences.  I am seeing this one of the kids that is 14 months older than my DD got put in the low math group this year.  Now that DD is older and has had to learn to work harder to keep up she is starting to shine and is one of the top students but definitely was low average in K and 1st.[/quote]

I doubt your DD's teacher based your child's reading "problem" on how she was reading relative to an 8 year old.  My DS's birthday is late May and he has kids almost two years older than him in his class and he does well.  You act as if the teacher teaches your DD materials a year ahead because there are older kids in the class and then marks your DD down for not being able to handle it.  The teachers teach on grade level and if your child can't keep up, it has nothing to do with the age of the other kids.  I think each child is different.  Unless schools start doing classes based on birth month, there will always be kids who have a year advantage just because of the cut off.  [/quote]

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