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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks, everyone, for such great contributions. Lots of food for thought.

I don't want to make an impression that I am convinced he should go to first grade ahead of schedule. I will absolutely put him in kindergarten again if that's where he belongs after he completes his private K program.  I simply want to know that IF he matures enough during that year, that there IS an option for him to go to first grade based on evaluations of academics and social skills.

To the posters who were concerned about being the smallest kid in class: it just so happens that he is VERY tall for his age so that is not a concern.

To someone who asked why he was put in the pre-K class: h[b]is preschool has two tracks - preschool and pre-K[/b].  He completed the preschool year and was obviously ready to transition to pre-K (not to mention way bigger than most of the preschool kids).  It would have made zero sense to keep him in preschool track for another year.

His preschool is very good and offers a good mix of academics and play.  But I do not want him to repeat their pre-K year again; it has nothing to do with the school, I just think that he doesn't need another year of the same.

The private K program I am considering is more structured but offers lots of enrichment activities, play time, two recesses a day, music etc. in addition to academics. It is also an immersion language school, one of the few in this area, so would give us a great opportunity to cement his grasp of his heritage language.

I may be a little biased because I was the youngest kid in my class too (late August bday) and ended up as not only the top student but also the tallest in class.

For those of you who say it can be done: is it, then, to the discretion of the principal of his base school? Or can you demand that he be evaluated for 1st grade placement? Meaning, can the principal decline to even evaluate him out of, well, principle?[/quote]

How strange. Most preschools I've toured have it grouped by age and in accordance with the FCPS calendar. So a twos class, a threes class, a fours class, and maybe a pre-K for kids being red shirted. I've never seen a preschool that only had two classes, "generic preschool" and "pre-K". Weird. [/quote]
The fours class is a pre-K class. What would be weird is keeping him with the threes class for the whole year. [/quote]

How is it weird to keep him in the same class all year? That is the norm.[/quote]
There is more than one way to run preschools, isn't there?

There isn't a "threes" class in his preschool. They take kids starting at 30 months and they are in "preschool", when kids turn 4, they move to the preK classroom. That's how it is, and it served us well. [/quote]

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