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[quote=Anonymous]The problem is not the 13 month difference. The problem is that soon it will be a 14 month difference, then the people with June kids will see the trend and say that they don't want THEM to be the youngest so then THEY will start red shirting. It is the trend of kindergarten getting older and older for affluent, white students. Those who cannot afford to keep their child at home another year have to send their child on. Lets not forget that it also makes the teachers job harder because he/she now has to prepare lessons for a class made up of kids with an age variation of over 15 months at some points....

And yes, it is an individual decision but those younger kids are being compared to the older kids....you KNOW it happens.....And the fact that the younger kids may not have as many facts under their belt as the older ones is being used as evidence that they were not ready for K, when in fact, they are the age that students are supposed to be when they go to K, as deemed by the State of VA.If you have an issue with that, then work to get the state cutoff changed - don't argue about it here.

People hold their kids back because they don't want them to be the youngest. Guess what? Someone has to be....[/quote]

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