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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MYOB.[/quote]

I disagree with this attitude.  Those who put kids in Kindergarten who will be turning 7 DO affect others.  I should be able to send my summer child on time without kids being THAT much older than them (unless there was good reason).  Now my kid, who is following the age guidelines, is going to feel short or possibly behind in someway, when really they should be within the standard of normal.  Older kids in the class also change the teachers expectations of normal, and therefore DO affect others![/quote]

It is everyone business, but especially five year old boys (or active girls) who behave in an age appropriate way for five year olds.

A bunch of seven year olds in a kindergarten classroom skews the expectations for behavior, and turns those kids behaving or misbehaving in age appropriate ways and learning at age appropriate paces into problem children or in need of remediation.

If parents hold them out to the point they are going to turn seven during the kindergarten year (the age of many second graders) then the schools need to test them for kindergarten mastery and move them into first grade.[/quote]

My nephew in New York started THIRD grade at 7 years old as did many of his classmates. The cutoff there is you have to turn 5 by December of your kindergarten year. Since he was born in November he went on time to kinder at age 4 years, 9 months. He started 1st grade at age5, second grade at 6, and was 7 the first three months of school. I think my brother mentioned to get into the gifted kindergarten program you can't redshirt your kid. [/quote]

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