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[quote=Anonymous]+1 for firm cutoff. My 6 yo son is a May bday in a district with a July 31 cutoff, so one of the younger. We could not redshirt and continue to receive IEP services at school. So kids like him (he has mild CP) - who are even more behind- have to start on time. He does not get separate PE and it is so hard that these kids who are a year or 11 months older than him are so coordinated and he still can't catch a ball.

That said, I was tempted to redshirt anyway, and just throw all the private therapies at him, and I had a lot of support in doing so from family members and mom friends. Conversely, ALL of his teachers, specialists, therapists, etc. told me to send him on time, that the benefits of redshirting were overstated, that he would grow more in K than he would in another year of Pre-K, and that if K were a total disaster, he could repeat. FF, he grew so much in Kindergarten and won "most improved" award. I posed the question of retention at his winter conference, and his teacher told me he was absolutely not a candidate for retention (and this is not an anti-retention district- at least one of his classmates was retained). [/quote]

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