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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, here's the thing--the kids they want to put her with are going to be her peer group throughout school it sounds like--she has a Fall birthday, right?  She will always be in the older side, so may as well put her with those kids now.  That said, the school doesn't sound too great and no preschool is worth that type of commute in my mind, though I am not religious so I can't speak to that aspect of it.  If it were me, I'd probably change, but not because they want to hold her back to be in the class she should have been in had they not let her start early.  Eventually, she would need to repeat a class, right?  Sounds like she has another three years before Kindergarten, right?[/quote]

Right, she has a fall birthday.  And I can see how repeating Pre-K would be worse if they will be aging up with the same kids, but she won't be - what we would plan to do is have her do Pre-K at this school then repeat it nearer to our home where the kids she'll meet will be in her public school.  I am not so on board with the idea of "class of X" in preschool though, I tend to prefer the preschools that e.g., are either so big that each kid is in a class with only kids within 6 months of their specific age, or have widely mixed-age classrooms where there are both younger and older kids together.[/quote]

So if you put her in the correct class next year, she will be in a smaller age range than her current class.

You are being difficilt about the age thing. You want the older class to have a larger age spread of which your daughter is several months after the cut off, but are insulted by the idea of your daughter being in a class of kids her age or a few months to maybe ten months younger.

That is being difficult.

You want them to make an accomodation to let your daughter into the older class, but are indignant at the idea of her being placed in the correct class with an age spread less than what you are requesting.[/quote]

Huh?  I don't think I'm making myself clear.  I'm not "insulted" at all - I totally get why they want to put her in the 2 year old class.  (And for the record, I was only asking that she be moved up when she turned 3, not before.)  I just don't want to pay and drive that much unless she is getting development-appropriate education, which I have observed that she is not currently.  I suppose it would appear I am biased when I say that she's verbally advanced/not getting appropriate stimulation - I get how that sounds, but it's true.  This is why I'm not going to "fight/be difficult," but just going to leave.[/quote]

Are you a first time parent?[/quote]

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