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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for all of the feedback.  My DH strongly agrees with holding her back as well.  Some of my hesitation is that I was a late July birthday myself, but there was never a question of holding me back in public school in the 1980s and so it was my experience to be the youngest in the class.  Funny enough, my childhood best friends all had summer birthdays as well and in retrospect we were all the same maturity-wise (and in terms of physical development, too!).  DD is our oldest child, and it's so interesting to see how class room age cut-offs have shifted, particularly in private schools.  Thanks again for the timely and helpful responses. [/quote]

In general, most highly rated public and private schools are more rigorous in the earlier years than the typical elementary school of the 80's. As an example, it's now typical for children to take Algebra I in 8th and there's a reasonable bunch who take it in 7th and even 6th. Growing up Algebra I in 8th was the highest math track.[/quote]

Interesting.  I went to GDS in the 80s-90s where about a quarter of the class to algebra in 7th, then the rest split evenly between algebra in 8th and pre-algebra in 8th.  I don't get the impression that has changed too much.  Maybe it was always rigorous and the rest of the elementary schools are catching up? [/quote]

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