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[quote=Anonymous]Our Preschool provided evaluation for K before the transition to the last Preschool room. I trusted our schools recommendation because the recommendations were clearly based on the individual kids and well thought out. There were a few kids they suggested needed another year in preschool before K, they tended to be boys with late summer birthdays and knowing the kids it was hard to disagree. There were a few kids that the school suggested private ES for K because the kids birthday was the week after the cut off and everything in preschool indicated that they would do fine if they started K "early." Both kids who were in that boat are doing just fine in ES right now. They are also kids that were above average for height so they were not likely to be the smallest in their class as well as the youngest. Most of the kids, my son included, they suggested go on time.

Most of our kids had been at the same day care/preschool since they were babies so it wasn't unusual to share these conversations. we also knew the ages of the kids because of when the kids joined the class as babies in the infant room and the annual birthday celebrations. It was obvious when the two kids who had been in their class every year were not moved to the next class and the 2 kids who we knew were after the cut off moved with the class. We stay in touch in a variety of ways so we know how each other kids are doing.

I would take the Teachers recommendations with a grain of salt because the Preschool Teacher couldn't point to anything that would lead to people red shirting a kid.

I was the youngest kid in her class, I graduated as a 17 year old and started college as a 17 year old. It was fine. I can see where I might have been better off with starting later but only because I have LDs, which were not diagnosed in Preschool but were caught in K. I don't think a year delay would have hurt me but I am not so certain that it would have been great for me either. [/quote]

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