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[quote=Anonymous]I realize this thread is old, but after a conversation today with a mom in my neighborhood, I feel the need to resurrect.

If your child has no glaring reason to be redshirted, please think about how enrolling your child in a 5 day a week "pre-k" program is that different from just starting the child in kindergarten on time.  In the words of this mom, kindergarten was basically a repeat of pre-k.  Her son already knew how to read, add, and subtract prior to starting kindergarten - he was really bored and doesn't like school.   Pre-k hours were shorter than the school day, but with aftercare he was out of the house just as long.  I didn't ask, but I am truly wondering, was/is his maturity so off that it would have impacted his ability to be successful, on time, in kindergarten?  I look at the kid now and he seems right in the middle of the pack socially to be entering second grade.  And yet off he will go to first.

About a month ago, a DIFFERENT  mom that I met at the pool was also lamenting about her (redshirted) son being so bored in kindergarten.

Well, parents, don't complain if that's the choice you made!

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