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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s bothers me that schools even allow this. Why not just let 10 year olds in K?? I mean wouldn’t they perform better then? /s.[/quote]

I don’t understand why this bothers you.  If he’s not successful in K he’s going to have to repeat at the expense of the school district and will still be older than everyone plus he’ll have to deal with the emotions fall out of repeating while his classmates advance.  It’s the same outcome.  [/quote]

It is a slippery slope. This lady thinks it’s fine to send a 6y8m old kid to K. If that’s fine, why not 7? 7.5? At some point the answer just has to be NO.[/quote]

Maybe the schools shouldn’t have made kindergarten so developmentally inappropriate; then fewer people would have reservations about all-day desk work, 20” lunch and no recess for 5 year olds.[/quote]

Just because a few kids struggle doesn’t mean K should be dumbed down for the rest or kids should be allowed to start as late as their parents want. Already they’ve moved the cutoff from 12/31 that it was when we were kids. And no one redshirted then.[/quote]

Who is this “we”? The cutoff was 11/1 when I was a kid.

And there were minimal academic expectations of kindergarteners then.[/quote]

Yeah, I’ve always lived in places with a 9/30 cutoff and plenty of redshirted kids. I have a summer birthday and was not redshirted, but I had friends who were a year older than me in the same grade, and my age in the grade below. I was born in the mid 80s and grew up in the Midwest. [/quote]

So honest question for all those who think it’s totally fine, how old is too old for K. Please specify an exact age.[/quote]

Non-summer birthdays, because then you turn 7 in K and 19 before graduating HS. Of course, that’s totally normal in private schools. Redshirted summer birthday kids will be 6 for all of K, and 18 for all of senior year of HS. Most kids turn 6 during K and 18 during high school anyway. [/quote]

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