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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Oh I see so you just don’t understand basic math. The May redshirted kids would be turning 6 in May before starting k whereas your daughter would be turning 6 in November so they would be 6 months apart in age. No kid is starting k at age 7. Maybe turning 7 during the school year but not starting k after having turned 7 in May. [/quote]

I’m not TALKING about K, I’m talking about FIRST. She did a year of private K. She COULD go to first. But there will be kids in first grade who, if they’re like OP, were born in May 2012 and whose mom didn’t send them to K on time. They would be in first grade this year at 7.5. My kid, who couldn’t go to public K this year because she didn’t turn 5 until November, would be going into first grade with kids who are up to 7.5 when she herself won’t be 6 until November. As a result, I am having her do PUBLIC K this year instead of PUBLIC FIRST so she’s not 18 months younger than kids whose parents chose not to send them to K on time.

This isn’t hard. [/quote]

It is your call, you are the parent. My friends who sent their kids to private K have not regretted sending their kids to first grade right away. Their kids were academically and socially ready for it. If your daughter did well in private K and is ready for first grade, don't worry about the kids who started late. Most of the kids I know who were held back in our FCPS community were kids with August and September birthdays who had a medical/development issue. I don't know of any kids who were held back who had May birthdays. The OP is not in Virginia.

I did have a friend who tried to repeat K in public school and the teachers pulled them aside real fast and said it was a waste of a year for their kid because they were ready for first. [/quote]

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