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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea that you should need a doctors note to not send a four year old to all day kindergarten absolutely defies description.

When I was a child kindergarten was a half day for the first six months and I went home and ate lunch and napped. At five.

A good pediatrician would laugh you out of their office if you said that needed a “diagnosis” at four much less a neuropsychiatric work up. Are you even listening to yourself above the shrieking?[/quote]

Except literally no one is suggesting sending a 4 year old to all day kindergarten. This thread states up front that redshirting kids with birthdays close to the cutoff (which is how you wind up with 4 year olds who are technically eligible for kindergarten, because they have August or September birthdays and will turn 5 in the first month of school) should obviously be allowed to redshirt due to age.

This thread is exclusively about late redshirters -- kids with winter or spring birthdays, who are well over the age of 5 by the time K starts. And the suggestion is that for kids in this range (some of whom may indeed benefit from redshirting) there should be some kind of document reason for redshirting since it will result in some kids turning 7 during K (the scenario OP describes) and that could have a negative impact on other kids in class.

Not a single person in this thread has suggested that parents should have to explain why they don't want to start their 4 yr old in K. Not one. We are talking about parents who want to redshirt their 5.5 year old and have them start K at 6.5 instead.[/quote]

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