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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really more about long term impact going into K much younger than his peers and always being the youngest until he's college bound.  So, if you were the youngest/oldest of your class, how do you feel your experience affected you from your age/grade level in school later in life?  How did it impact you with grades, socially, professionally at a much later age?  Do you think you would have benefited more if you were youngest/oldest?
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It never occurred to me that I might hold a child back from starting K.  I began considering it following a heart-to-heart with an older colleague with a child approaching college.  She told me that she really wished she had held him back early on because he really was not ready now.  There is just no way to see into the future and you will never know what the road not taken would have been like.  For me, I just see little cost (other than the price of another year of pre-k and enduring all the misguided redshirting threads on DCUM) in the hold-back and material risk (i.e. all the parents who say “I wish I had”) in the on-time.[/quote]

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