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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a November kid who missed the cutoff last year and did a year of private K. I am still sending her to public K this fall and not 1st specifically because of people who hold back May birthdays, meaning my kid would be in classes with kids 18 months older than her.

August/September birthdays: consider it. Any other month and your kid is neurotypical: get your sh*t together and go to school. [/quote]

Where do you live that a November kid would ever even have the option to go to k at age 4? Most places have a sept cut off so your November birthday kid would always be one of the oldest in their class but wouldn’t have the option to start k til age 5/turning 6 in November. November birthday (and October, December, January through May kids) shouldn’t even have to think about redshirting at all. It should only come up if a kid has a June-sept birthday.[/quote]

Yes and? I never said she could go to K at 4. But this year, when she could theoretically go to 1st grade because she did a year of private K, there could be kids born in May 2012 in there whose parents didn’t think they were ready for K at 5.5. When kids who miss the cutoff by 1 month and have to go the next year are in classes with kids who made the cutoff by 6 months but whose parents held them back, there’s now an 18 month age span in a class. I’m not sending her to a 1st grade class at 5.5 with 7+ year olds. So I will send her to K entering public, where she will be toward the older end of the class, not the youngest by 18 months because of some May kid whose mom sent him a year late. [/quote]

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