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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do not understand holding a child back for social reasons.  If you hold a child back and keep him or her with kids 1-2 years younger, you cannot complain they are immature as you are keeping them with kids who are far younger and do not have the social skills that can help them advance. Your chid will always be behind age/socially as they haven't been given the opportunity to mature and be with peers who may be what others consider more "mature."[/quote]

You're right, you don't understand. Full stop. [/quote]
I agree with the first PP.  Plus, if the child is on-real-grade level, you are dumbing him down, forcing him to slow down academically.  And then the parent may possibly be like who the OP is talking about - complain that your child is not being challenged.

I don't know what school district you are in, but in MCPS, the test to get into the gifted program (HGC) is age-normed, meaning that an older child will have to score a lot higher than a younger child to get in. So, if a parent is thinking that redshirting a child will give a child more of a chance to get into a gifted program in ES in MCPS, this is not the case. And actually, you may be hindering the chances by purposefully slowing your child down academically.  A lot of bright kids will become lazy if they find school too easy.  This happened to me, too.[/quote]

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