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[quote=Anonymous]I posted earlier about having a young kindergarten boy doing ok despite his small size and less than stellar fine motor skills.  I should also mention that I redshirted an older boy--not totally on purpose--the dates were changing back then and he ended up barely making the deadline.  At the time, about eight years ago, I hadn't even heard the word redshirt.  So many of his classmates actually missed the deadline that his preschool added a temporary "bridge" junior kindergarten to deal with all these kids who were done with preschool and yet were not allowed to attend MCPS kindergarten.  That no longer exists at the school.  I decided to keep my son in that group with his friends--he was maybe five days older than those who technically missed the cutoff.  Anyway, public school didn't go so well--he really seemed so much older and was easily frustrated by his peers.  He was bored academically too.  Just a real obvious maturity difference, and he struggled to find friends he truly related to, insomuch as kindergarten and first and second grade boys do with one another.  He moved to private and everyone skewed older there.  He did much much better socially.  I wonder now if he would have been fine in public with an older peer group.  I probably should have sent him ahead back then--it might have been a lot cheaper anyway in the long run![/quote]

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