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[quote=Anonymous][quote]"Me thinks the lady doth protest too much."

Let's be honest, this trend --- and I emphasize trend --- is the result of school administrators doing what parents want instead of doing their job. We aren't talking about children with summer birthdays or children with "challenges" because there aren't enough of them to make a trend. If you are comfortable with your perfectly lovely and bright child finishing up K as an 8-year-old you can do that right here in our fair city; if you want your child to finish K as a 6-year-old, be aware that there is a good chance that the class will have children mire than a year older than your child.

Personally, I can't imagine my children graduating high school when they are 19 or 20.[/quote]

I agree that graduating high school at 19 or 20 fifty years ago would sound bizarre given a life expectancy of 60 or so years but with the life expectancy now stretching to 80 it would not surprise me that kids graduate from high school at 19 or 20 or begin college at 19 or 20.  Take a look at the exponential numbers of students delaying entry into your beloved Ivy league schools (even encouraged to defer admissions).  It's more important to get education right than rush to the "finish line" ill-prepared for graduate education or the real world. 
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