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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would move because of the commute even if you were happy with every other aspect.  Just not worth it IMO.

On the class/age group issue...I get that it feels weird having your Fall birthday 3yr old in a class with mostly 2 yr olds.  My DD has an Oct. birthday so she just misses the age cutoff.  In her "2 yr old" class, where she was 3 for most of the year, she was in some ways the 'teacher's helper' because there is so much difference between a recently turned 2 and recently turned 3 yr old, esp. when you add in that DD is very big for her age.  But, it really was fine.  Her best friend in the class (and for a few years after that) was 10 mos younger than her.  And a preschool day at either 2 or 3 is (or should be!) mostly play.  I'd have had no problem with her being in that room as both a young 2 yr old and a 3 yr old.  That would be much more preferable to repeating a preK year.  At that point they are learning more academics and a 5 yr old doing a 2nd yr of Pre K is going to be bored. Unless you can figure out a way to get her ES to let her skip a year (not likely) or plan to home school, she will always be the oldest in class and it's best to get in sync with that rather than putting yourself in a situation where she needs to repeat PreK.[/quote]

Thanks, and this is very reassuring--I really appreciate it!  And yes, those are the exact reasons they want to keep her back.  It's hard to explain, but the school as a startup is what exacerbates the 2 year old/3 year old thing.  The classes aren't full yet and the mix of kids they have makes her fit much better with the 3 year olds.  But more than the age thing it's that she has been with those kids since day 1 and she'd be the only one staying back.  The school is suggesting this transition will be harder for her if she does it later, but I never planned to have her do 2 Pre-K years at the same school - I would move her for her 2nd year to the local public pre-K, which would then hopefully smooth out the transition to kindergarten and help her meet the friends she'll be with there.  But this thread is helping me understand the disconnect a bit.  [/quote]

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