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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]

lol at an academically advanced 4 year old. If she’s that advanced she should go to k on time. Lmao. [/quote]

Why? She can already write her name and count and spell and she’ll be reading by the summer. That’s not special or abnormal in our family.

Why should she sit indoors all day to learn skills she will already have while fighting all the natural immature tendencies of a four year old? I don’t understand how that makes any sense as a learning environment for her.[/quote]

You do understand she will have to eventually go to kindergarten right? If she’s so advanced now she’ll be even more bored in another year. [/quote]

Oh for goodness’ sakes.  You must be the only person on this board who has an issue with a 4 year old being forced to attend K.  Give it a rest!  I wouldn’t send my 4 year old either.  PP is 100 percent making the right call.

Btw, all three of my kids were napping in K at age 5.[/quote]

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