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If everyone entered Baltimore privates in K, then you'd be correct. Parents of children who enter after that point may not have been aware of the pre-first pattern, and can be blindsided.

At that point, schools are accepting children based on more data so birthdays don't loom as large when it comes to placement and a summer birthday kid can end up in the "correct" grade instead of recommended for the grade below.

But in general, I agree with you. In Baltimore privates, if you have a summer birthday kid, he or she is doing pre-first, and may do pre-first if there are other issues. It's an entirely normal part of the progression, and the weird kids are not the old-for-grade kids but the on-time summer birthday kids or the rare grade skippers.[/quote]

"pre-first"?

Have the Baltimore private schools figured out a way to get parents to pay for 14 years of private-school tuition instead of 13?[/quote]

Yes. And the parents are for the most part happy about it. The parents who aren't, can usually opt their child out of pre-first. Very few do.[/quote]

This is entirely accurate. I don’t mind at all. My kids school has a reputation for being a bit of an academic pressure cooker, so I’m just as happy for my kid to have an extra year to mature emotionally,  and I’m not worried about academics being boring.  In a different environment I might feel differently. [/quote]

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