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I choose to believe that the teachers at my kids' school have their students' best interests at heart, and are making the recommendations that they believe will help a kid most, even if that recommendation results in a difficult conversation with a family who doesn't believe their child could benefit from another year.
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I'm the PP with the son who was recommended for Pre-First but went on to First instead.

I believe his teachers had his best interests at heart. We had several conversations with them and the administration and I believe the reason they agreed to a move directly into First was because we pointed out aspects of his personality that they were downplaying in their recommendation for another year. I suspect they thought some things they were seeing were transient, things he would grow out of with another year of maturity (they weren't) and I also think they didn't weigh how important it can be for some children to have a challenge they need to rise to meet rather than easily meeting expectations.

Where a birthday falls matters a great deal. A child with a spring birthday might get more consideration, but a child with even an early summer birthday has to be fairly outstanding academically and socially for the school to even consider not sending the child on to Pre-First. That lends some weight to the perhaps overly-conspiratorial feeling that schools are milking an extra year of tuition and appreciate that older students are more likely to perform better athletically and in college acceptances.[/quote]

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