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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This actually pisses me off as the parent of an August baby that you think putting a kid a year and a half older in her grade (without diagnosed special needs) is acceptable. [/quote]

WHY?  I have a September child and could not care less kids are that much older.  I wanted my kid the youngest vs. oldest.  If my kid can hold their own with kids that much older, especially academic, I'm very proud of him.[/quote]

I also have a late August born kid and I'm kinda with both of you. My kid is very tall for her age and extremely socially confidant. She always gravitates towards kids that are her size, which means they are almost always older. For the most part, she does fine and I don't think having a playmate 1.5 years older would impact her too much. But a classmate might be different. There's a lot of differences between 6.5 and someone barely turning 5. I don't think I'd be angry, but I might concerned about it and wonder at your apparent selfishness. [/quote]

Why is it selfish to send a child on time?  It is selfish to hold a child back assuming they are not capable vs. giving them a chance.  I get so tired of the argument that K is so difficult.  The reality is the play based preschools are not preparing kids well and that causes an issue with the transition.  My child went younger and had SN and is doing great.  If anything pushing ahead helped with the SN and he's thriving.  He's going to be short due to genetics regardless so that is not a reason to hold back.  Yes. there are huge differences in ages, but its selfish of the parents who held back.  It skews everything, especially test scores.  Parents brag their kids are smarter when the kids aren't actually smarter, but they have had a year to absorb material that they really should have learned a year ago.  We gave my child the choice when we transferred to public and he choose the higher grade.  It would have been selfish not to follow his choice when he's doing well.  The early years of school are so slow and I don't get why we are dumbing down our kids when they need to compete globally.[/quote]

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