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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone on here says, "you know your kid!" or "if he's ready, send him!"

[b]DS (september birthday)[/b] is totally ready for Kindergarten, no question in my mind. But, "in real life" the advice I get is, he may be fine in kindergarten but the real issues pop up later when everyone else is 
 - bigger
 - going through puberty
 - driving
 - etc.

I hear smaller and younger kids have trouble socially, etc.

Just a vent I guess... I just don't think it's as cut and dry as saying, "if he's ready now, send him". And yes, I know my kid at age 4, but not what he'll be like at 11... [/quote]

OP, Will he be 5 by the September 1 cut off?  Doesn't sound like it.  Not sending him to K this year isn't "redshirting."  You're sending him on time.  I'm not sure I understand why you have dilemma.[/quote]

This is OP. We are in VA so his birthday is two weeks before the 9/30 cutoff. Which always brings up another point... it's so random and if we were in MD (or much of the rest of the country) he would have missed the cutoff... [/quote]

Yes, but if you were in some other parts of the country, he would make the cut-off by a few months & likely be nowhere close to being the youngest in his class.I wouldn't necessarily go by what would happen if you lived someplace else as that could really go either way.[/quote]

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