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[quote=Anonymous]This issue is not black and white.

If a student is too immature for college (regardless of whether they are 17 or 18), they can and should do a gap year. That's one of the things it's for. Enrolling a child in K at almost-5 does not dictate they will attend college at 17. People have free will.

I can see why a parent of a PK student who is reading at 4 would be interested in early K. My kid was an early reader and started K at just-turned-5 and it couldn't happen soon enough. She was ready and had really outgrown PK. I think if she'd been in Montessori it might not have been a big deal, because the mixed age classroom would have enabled her to do academics with older kids, but in a traditional public school, it just wasn't the right place for her anymore. So I get where OP is coming from -- she knows her kid best.

It really seems like this is something that should be up to parents, in consultation with the school, not decided by fiat. I also see the arguments for waiting for many kids, and why an extra year of PK could benefit a lot of kids. But it's not universal and maybe OP's kid is like mine and genuinely is ready for, and needs, kindergarten instead of another year of play-based PK.[/quote]

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