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[quote=Anonymous]This is 100% anecdotal, but anyway.  Our daughter is an October birthday and skipped kindergarten in public school,
So she is full year younger than some of the kids in her class. She applied to go to private middle school (6th) this year. We live in Baltimore, where almost EVERYONE in private does a “pre-first” year. But all the schools she applied to accepted her, some with significant merit aid (we don’t need FA).

The two youngest kids in her public school 5th grade class (my daughter and another kid) are both matriculating into a very well-regarded and academically challenging private school where almost every lower school kid does a pre-first year.   If the school truly believed in the “extra year” philosophy, why would they admit my daughter and her classmate? Why wouldn’t they insist that they redo 5th grade?

I think it is easier to convince lower school parents to pay for an extra year, but it’s a much harder sell when kids are older and have established academic records and personalities. [/quote]

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