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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I  currently a preschool teacher, taught kindergarten for 20 years before making the move. I tend to err on the side of giving kids with summer birthdays the extra year of preschool. 
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Why?

- August birthday child who excelled academically[/quote]

DP.  They've changed school since we were kids, made it more stressful and less enjoyable.  They also have greater EF expectations earlier and expect kids to be self-sufficient without teaching them how.

We didn't redshirt our August boy and academically he's doing fine - but am extra year of maturity would have benefitted him significantly.[/quote]

Stop expecting so little of your child. If he's doing fine, he's doing fine, and no one wants your 18 year old man in school with their 17 year old daughter.[/quote]

My daughter will be 18 all senior year because of her Sept birthday. It's normal to be 18 all year. Stop spewing this nonsense that it's not. If a cutoff is 9/1 or 9/30 what do you think happens to kids who happen to be the oldest? It's by design.[/quote]

It's literally not normal. People like you have made it [i]common[/i], but common is not normal.[/quote]

Yes, it is normal.  The age cutoff is Sept 1 nearly everywhere.  The Sept-Dec kids will be 18 most of their senior year and that is [i]normal[/i][/quote]

It is not normal. I just had my third kid graduate high school. The large majority of kids turn 18 just before graduation. [/quote]

Ok, so you are old.  Maybe the cut off used to be Nov 1 when your adult kids were small.  The cutoff is Sept 1 now and has been for many years.  Many schools literally will not enroll your child in K if they are not 5 by Sept 1. Can you not understand this?[/quote]

PP is a troll trolling the elementary school forum about her dinosaur school that has some out of date cut off and is insulting everyone with a different experience with different rules that are common now. What kind of person does this? That person should just admit they were wrong and move along 
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