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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP who said you can always put your kid in kindergarten and if they are not ready, you can hold them back, I don't think that's a good idea.  If you hold them back, the kid will look at it as they are the ones who failed (not at that point, but as they get older).  They will also want to know why they couldn't go to 1st grade with their friends.  I still remember the 2 kids in my elementary school who were held back a year.

They may internalize this and think they are not as good, aren't smart, etc.

If the parents delay the start, the parents can say they were trying to give them an advantage, they wanted to spend more time with them, etc.  Whatever the reason, the parents can take full blame for the late start and the kids won't ever be at risk for thinking they were failures.  Just my 2 cents.[/quote]

Thanks for explaining that - I was wondering why delaying school would be considered a good thing. Those are sympathetic reasons and if your kid has developmental delays, I can understand, but if you kid is at least close to average, I don't see why you wouldn't give them the chance. Speaking from experience, being the oldest kid in your class can suck for all kinds of reasons and being the kid who "repeated" pre-K can be just as embarrassing as repeating a year of actual school. Not feeling challenged in class can cause a host of behavioral problems; being the oldest raises all kinds of questions from the other kids; being in the same softball team as your peers but a grade or two behind them in school is awkward; and then getting into the pre-teen bodily changes before anyone else - it's just a mess and to put a kid through all that just so the parent can feel confident that they set their kid up for success in KG? KG is rather short lived - middle school + high school are much longer and more relevant to one's sense of self-esteem and one's likelihood to succeed in college. IMO, a kid would need to have rather extraordinary developmental issues for me to think keeping him out of KG is a good idea. [/quote]

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