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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gap year suggests he's working or traveling rather than going to school.  Aren't you just keeping him in preschool an extra year?  [/quote]

That may be how the Europeans use gap year.  But in US modern times, at least from the recent "take a gap year" seminars I've heard about regarding our high school senior, I understand "gap year" to be more generic, sort of taking a year to get your stuff together.  (For example, to earn money to go to college or to decide if college is for you, to mature before you leave for college, stay home with a sick relative etc etc.)

But sure our 5 year old has traveled and done lots of other things this past year.  And he was in JrK.  "Just keeping him in preschool an extra year" is not how his gap year could be described.   [/quote]

Sorry but this is really pretentious when you're talking about a 5 year old.  He's not figuring things out or deciding if K is for him or taking a break from school after 12+ consecutive years of it.  You don't think he's ready for K, so you're not enrolling him in K yet.  No big deal, unless you turn it into one by framing it in a way that makes people want to roll their eyes.   There's no gap -- you just put him in JrK rather than K.  And that's what JrK is there for.  [/quote]

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