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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being a preemie is the only legit medical reason I can think of for extreme redshirting in a mainstream classroom. The other reasons people give for extreme redshirting (holding back a May bday in  a district with a Sept cutoff) are best addressed in a special ed classroom. Anyone saying otherwise is just trying to game the system.[/quote]

What are you doing to actually help your kid? Prepare your kid for the road, not the road for the kid by clearing all the obstacles. There will always be someone bigger, smarter, older, etc. That's life.[/quote]

Yeah definitely make your 4 y/o go to full day kindergarten to teach them some life lessons. Great parenting. Gold Star.

What about use the resources available to everyone to maximize your child’s chance of success and use the extra year to work on the thing your kid— your individual, idiosyncratic kid— would benefit most from?

I’m parent of the September daughter who will spend her “extra” preK year in an outdoor program. Why? Because she’s already academically advanced and doesn’t need more math and sciences, she needs another year in her second language and she needs another year of cooperative play with kids who are bigger and stronger than her to work on her social skills and problem solving.

That’s what my kid needs. Your kid probably needs something different. I expect you would know what that is and seek it out for them.[/quote]

If she is advanced you are doing her a disservice by holding her back.  Your excuses make no sense as [b]she can get that in K.  [/b]

Most kids by age three and four are in full day preschools or day cares so if your child did these, the school or you failed them if they are not ready for k.  [/quote]

You know what she can’t get? More than 30 minutes outside all day or an age-appropriate nap if she wants it. Four year olds don’t need to be sitting in classrooms all day.[/quote]

5 year olds don’t nap.   And, you can take her outside before school, after school weekends or evening.  See how that works?[/quote]

Sure, I can. Or I can let her spend 4+ hours per day outdoors and gain more facility in her second language, and grow physically and emotionally for another year,  just like she would if she had been born a few days later.

You go ahead and send your four year old to sit in a classroom counting buttons and beans getting 30 minutes for recess.
I’m sure on balance they’ll be fine. I don’t consider that the more optimal environment for my child.[/quote]

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