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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can always elect to repeat kindergarten or first grade.  Be willing to reasses during the year.  My daughter - October birthday - was okay in kindergarten but in spending time helping in the classroom it was clear to us that she was almost always following the lead of the older girls.  We and her teacher kept an eye out and decided to repeat K.  After we made that decision we learned that four other families had decided to do the same thing with their daughters.  Another friend decided to stay and repeat first grade.

Everyone with older kids knows kids who did fine or okay being younger, and kids who clearly suffered. It is very kid specific. I encourage everyone to keep reevaluating their decisions.  Our very good friends considered moving their early starting son to private school and repeating sixth grade.  Their kid has things together now but he is 23.  Middle school and high school were real struggles as he was just less mature than his peers all the way through and that is never fun.

Could the girls have done as well if they had not been held back?  Possibly, but sports became a big thing for all of them.  So, it would likely have been a very different experience.

The extra year for the girls gave them more maturity and confidence.

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It is not accurate that you can elect to repeat K or 1st. The only way to do that at our MCPS is if the teacher/school wants you to, which is very, very rare. Parents can't just say "I think DC would do better to repeat."[/quote]

Actually that's exactly what the parents can do. You have a conference with the teacher and then again with the teacher and VP or P and there is paperwork to be done, but parents can call this. I did it for my Sept birthday son so that he repeated 1st grade. He is now finishing 4th grade and it was the best choice for him.[/quote]

That is absolutely not allowed at our school. Families are told why need to go to private to repeat K and then can come back.[/quote]

It is not a "school" decision.  And of course it is allowed. And no - school districts do not recommend losing kids to private school (very bad for business).

A decision to hold a kid back is not made in a vacuum. Teachers, admins and parents are all involved. If it is arguably best for the kid then it is no problem to hold a kid back.

Remember, this is about maturity; not intelligence. And the maturity factor is there throughout their school years. Young in 1st grade means young in 7th grade and in 11th grade and in college.  Nothing like being young and small when all your friends have already hit their growth spurts and all the girls are 6 inches taller than you.  Makes middle school a blast. Always good to be the worst kid at everything in sports only because you are small.  Or, struggling in classes because your attention span isn't at the same level of your classmates. [/quote]

That's great if your school allowanhat, but our MCPS does not. I know several families who have had to move their kids to private to repeat because they were academically on-target but socially immature. Parents pushed the school to allow the child to repeat and were told no. In this environment, I can't blame anyone who is on the fence about whether the child is ready who chooses to redshirt.[/quote]

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