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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Kids don't need to do a gap year.  That's a rich parent whose trying to get their kid into a "better" school.

There should be more flexibility.  I assume its principal bias as that's what we saw and kids who were reading, writing and doing basic math and could sit still were denied.

To hold back for more play based doesn't prepare kids for K.[/quote]

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