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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone have experience with starting an August child on time to give it a shot, then repeating K?[/quote]

I posted earlier in the thread that we did this.  The extra year helped a lot with social/emotional development and some mild anxiety.  DD is doing great and I have no regrets.[/quote]

I forgot to mention that we didn't start K expecting to repeat. It never occurred to me until the school brought it up and we conferred with the principal and several teachers. I'd have considered redshirting had I really thought DD wasn't ready.[/quote]

Really glad this is working out for you. Did she repeat K with a different teacher? Any negatives with repeating? (Not moving on with friends, being bored, etc?)[/quote]

The principal gave us a choice of repeating with the same teacher, or a different one.  We chose to stay with the same teacher.  I can't really think of any negatives resulting from the decision to repeat.  DD kept up with her old friends for a while through Girl Scouts, and made plenty of new friends the second time around.  Quite a few of those new friends have birthdays that fall in the 2-3 months after DDs which makes her closer in age to them than she was to a lot of the kids she'd started out with.  DD is above grade level in history and Language Arts, and solidly at grade level in math.  Still a bit more sensitive and prone to frustration than many of her peers, but not to the point where it's a problem, and at this point I can't imagine her being a grade level ahead of where she is.  She fits in both academically and socially right where she is.[/quote]

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