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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait...you're not planning to send your son who turned 5 in May to Kindergarten this fall? Why???

Signed,

A July 27th baby who entered Kindergarten at 5.[/quote]

My oldest's birthday is August 23rd... he went into K on time. He's now in 3rd grade and doing fine - above grade level, he has friends, etc.

Unless there is a reason like a special need or hospital visits that make waiting a year necessary, I don't understand redshirting.[/quote]

I'll say this, as an experienced elementary school teacher.  In my experience:

Not every boy with a summer birthday has had trouble in early elementary,

Not even most of the boys.

[b]But of the children I've had, who have had a lot of social-emotional-academic trouble in early elementary,90% them were summer birthday boys[/b].[/quote]

Just had this same conversation with a friend who is an elementary school counselor. She says there are boys who do fine -- but the ones with trouble, are almost ALWAYS the young (summer birthday) boys. She encouraged us to redshirt our August son, or have him do preschool/private K (we're at a montessori preschool, so it would be easy enough) and then do public K.[/quote]

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