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[quote=Anonymous]We sent our DD with a Labor Day birthday on time.  It's been a tough K year.  By chance, she ended up as the youngest in her class by 2 months.  More than half of her class was 6 by Christmas, but she's not even 5.5 yet.   She's a head shorter than most of the class and visibly younger.

She was in the principal's office every other day for the first month of school.  She's still on a behavior plan.  She does fine academically and during normal classroom work, but struggles with impulse control and transitions.  She can't seem to keep her body to herself when Iining up.  She's out classed socially on the playground and tends to get in trouble for doing annoying things, like continuing to chase someone after they've asked her to stop.  And she doesn't fit in in the lunchroom, as she hasn't yet figured out how to do small talk.  She tends to end up poking a neighbor or wiggling and falling out of her chair. It's all little stuff, but it adds up.  I think she'd probably fit in better in a pre-k class for young 5s.

It will be interesting to see if her K teacher thinks she should move on to 1st.  She's fine academically and during structured activities, but really struggles with transitions and unstructured time.  A 1st grade teacher is going to have much less patience for the maturity stuff.  By sending her on time I often feel like I've created a behavior problem out of a kid who would have been very successful if we just happened to live somewhere with Sept 1 cutoff.[/quote]

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