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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yet another redshirting issue, but please try to holster your guns. If you redshirted your child or if your child was already reading and was academically advanced for his/her age, were they bored in K? Is it really possible for kids to be bored when it's a totally new experience plus a full day of school? We want to redshirt our late August boy for social reasons, but he is reading at 1st grade level and academically more than ready for K.

Anyone have a child bored when they started elementary? How did it affect things?[/quote]

Yes he will probably start getting bored by 1st grade.  We redshirted our August bday kid.  Also for social reasons.

Our kid was not as academically advanced as your kid at that point - was not reading before either scheduled K start or even redshirt K start.  Was good at math - could do 1st grade math before scheduled K start.  Well DC's reading clicked when the redshirt year of K started and progressed a few grade levels by end of first semester.  Now in 1st grade and things seem endlessly repetitive and "easy".  Will probably not make FCPS AAP so now in holding pattern till curriculum catches up.  Aptitude test curves make it harder to qualify for AAP as a redshirt.

So from an academic standpoint it has probably not been a good move.  DC would be challenged if "on grade" and is not yet challenged in current grade.  From a social perspective, our kid does feel more comfortable and at ease with kids in this grade then one grade up - makes friends and interacts easily.  In preschool years our observation was DC seemed to be a behind the kids now in the next grade in terms of social skills / maturity.  So there are some positives from a social perspective.

So don't have an answer for you but don't discount the academic negatives to redshirting too quickly.  Also DC is tall for age which would have been slightly above average in next grade up but is "who is that big kid" in current grade.[/quote]

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