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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]

I had two friends who sent their kid who turned five in October to private kindergarten. They could not have attended public kindergarten because they were past the cut off. They did well in private kindergarten and the schools recommended that they continue on to first grade. One went to public school, which had to take the child as a first grader since they had completed kindergarten even though she was past the normal cut off. The other stayed in private because they liked the school. Both kids did just fine in first grade and are on to second grade.

I have a friend who sent their October birthday to private kindergarten at 5 and decided to send the kid to public kindergarten at 6 because the private kindergarten had not gone all that well. They did not think their kid was ready for first grade.

(shrugs)[/quote]

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