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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has a late fall birthday and young for his current grade (5th).  He currently goes to a small private school where 4-6th grade work all together and he has always been able to work at whatever level he needs.  He is currently working on materials 2-3 grades above 5th grade in core subjects and tests 95-99% on standardized tests.  He will stay in 6th grade at private, but then switch to public after.  When he switches, I am thinking of sending him to public 6th instead of 7th.  He doesn't know anyone so it won't be an issue of kids knowing he was "held back."   He is small for his age and sensitive.  Our public schools are underperforming and a pretty rough environment overall.  I feel like he will do better socially being older instead of younger.  But that would put him light years ahead of most his peer academically (our public school is below state proficiency averages).  I think it may be ok though because starting in middle school, our district has an excellent and rigerous academically talented program where the qualifying kids are taking to a partnering state university for their core classes.

Has anyone held an older child back for purely social reasons even though they were academically advanced?  
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Please do. it is a great idea. I regret not doing it for my child and she is a 19 year old now and I still wish we had. in our case she was staying in the same private school and our egos came to play. you are smartly avoiding that. so really win win[/quote]

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