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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if a kid has a September birthday - should a parent put them in at 4?  Or wait till they are 5?

Does DCUM consider this redshirting? At least the kid won't be 17 and going to college.[/quote]

I don't understand why so many people make a big deal out of being 17 for the first couple of weeks of college. For the majority of their first SEMESTER, they'll be 18.[/quote]

Counter argument - what is the rush? Four year olds starting school was not a thing until you had two working parents and had to find childcare.

It used to be December, which meant all kids were five entering kinder.  A lot of states use October now (we are military and that was the case for us) and when we came here, people were like you "held" your kid.  I didn't even know that was a thing.[/quote]

Stop trying to make this a working parent " thing". Some kids are legit advanced and it makes sense for them to be with academic peers. The same reason some people red shirt. [/quote]

I was a very advanced and precocious/gifted child. My parents of course started me in school on time. My birthday is in August a few days before the start of school, so I was a very new 5 year old in K and many of my classmates had been held back and were a whole year older. This was in the 80s. I was more than capable of doing 2nd or 3rd grade work as a new 5 year old - but I can distinctly remember feeling less mature and behind socially compared to my classmates. It evened out by middle school, of course, but by that point the damage was done. [/quote]

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