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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does a kid being 1 to 60 days OLDER impact your kid?? It doesn't!! Most kids being held are Aug/Sep birthdays and would have been 4 when KG began. Again, you are making an issue out of a kid being 15 days older than the next oldest child! What gives - what is your REAL issue???[/quote]

I don't think people are talking about a few days - agree 1-60 not a big deal... It's more the outliers. The 90 days, the 160 days + 365 then you start to see real differences.

I for one am sending my 4 yo to K on time.  Contrary to assumptions, I have no guilt. He spent the last year in a class of peers and did fine and I know he will do fine. It's more the perception in class of comparing my kid to a May red shirt that is now close to a year and half older than my child.  I am sure teachers do their best, but with large classes, I imagine human nature may play in at time and my child may be viewed as "immature" even though my child is exactly on target for the age.  It's just by comparison to the extreme red shirt kids my child might appear young.

IMO it's the extreme outliers, not the aug/sept kids whose parents deem the child is better off waiting a year.[/quote]

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