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[quote=Anonymous]Another angle.  We're in North Arlington but our DS goes to one of the countywide choice schools.  His class has some kids who turned 5 after the school year started and started K at 5 nevertheless.  While not a late summer birthday (late spring), our DS could've been held back for another year of preschool but not doing so was probably the best decision we made.  He has some learning disabilities and has an IEP at school.  The extra year of preschool would have done nothing for him.  He needed to get into a regular school classroom and start getting remediation for his learning disabilities.  Our DS has a friend in his class who also has Lds.  That boy was held back a year (and still has LD's) -- it's something that kids note and talk about (not in a mean way, but it is noticed).

As someone who lives in North Arlington, I think the red-shirting phenemonon is the herd mentality at work.  People talk about it anxiously and it creates a bandwagon effect.  It's also a function of how we raise kids these days -- with a lot of fretting that they can't possibly handle whatever it is and need to be sheltered.  I remember the last year of pre-school with so many moms fretting about whether their children could handle a long school day.  Not something I even thought to worry about - in my mind, it was, yes, DS is going to school and yes the day is longer.  All part of growing up and handling challenges.[/quote]

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