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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non-military families are guessing all over this thread. A military family that just PCS'd to a new state is different -- and will be treated differently than a local kid being red-shirted for no obvious reason. [/quote]

You're not special. It makes no difference where the parents are employed and why the move around so much. They could be a traveling circus family for all the school cares. The point is that a typical public school will not let you choose your child's grade level based on your fee-fees. There needs to be well-documented reasons for holding back.

Private schools only care about your $$$$$$.[/quote]

Public schools don’t care.  They really don’t.  Kids enroll in various grades of public school all the time with no “transcript.”  Kids are homeschooled, immigrants, come from private schools that don’t issue letter grades or do standardized testing.  Some elementary schools don’t issue grades as well.  No public middle school is hounding down records.  You fill out paperwork and it asks what grade your kid will be entering and you can put whatever you want.  Unless it is wildly off, no one is going to say anything. [/quote]

You sound like a private school snob who has no clue how public school works.

Public schools require a child's birth certificate or other identity document to enroll. They place you in a grade according to your listed date of birth, unless you have documentation or previous school records supporting a different placement. For example, if you were previously held back one grade or skipped one grade at another public school or accredited private school, they *usually* honor that and keep you on your current track. Homeschooled kids, migrants, kids from weird private schools, they all get placed according to age. There is no "put whatever you want."

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No, we go to public school and did this! You don’t NEED any documentation other than birth certificate, vaccination records, and proof of residency.  Birth certificate is to verify age is correct, not for grade placement past early el.  They will go on what grade the parent says they are enrolling the child unless there is a big discrepancy.  They also do not care about class placement and will stick your kid wherever there is space.  Public middle schoolers have 700+ kids and 2 counselor making the schedules.  Unless you want them in a more accelerated track, then you have to say so.  [/quote]

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