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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can’t afford private school, but you can afford to do whatever you have been doing for the last five years though, right?  Or if your kid had been born in October instead of August you would have been totally screwed?  
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What does this mean?  Correct, I can't afford 30k a year in tuition to a private school but I can afford free public pre-K and my mom to watch my kid after that.  Not sure why you're confused. [/quote]

Why can’t you just do that one more year?[/quote]

Because I can't.  Public pre-K is for children who are 4 on Sept 1, I can't just send my kid for another year after that because I want to, unless the school board says it's okay, which I'm sure they won't because [b]my kid is 4 this year and knows his letters, numbers, etc and doesn't have any delays[/b] so they won't allow him to repeat it.  This whole "you have a choice!" thing is for people who can afford private [/quote]

OP - if this is the case, then I'm confused about why you think your son will be disadvantaged by starting public kindergarten on time?

I think you're freaking out for no reason -- it's only a small percentage of people who actually redshirt their child.

[b]Personally, I feel sorry for the teachers who have to deal with boys that act out when they are the oldest and biggest in the class, and are bored because they already know much of what is being taught in kindergarten.[/b][/quote]

Most likely, those "big" boys would act out and disrupt the class, either way (redshirt or not), from what I have seen.[/quote]

It's just annoying because the parents I know that have held their kids back for another year of preschool have done so because they felt like their child was immature and disruptive (sucks for the preK teacher who has to deal with that another year), but then it turns out that the kid is just as immature and disruptive, but add on BORED, when they start Kindergarten.  I know THREE families that had this problem last year.  I hope it gets better for them for first grade, because kindergarten was hard on their kids.[/quote]

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