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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way, and I say this having an identified gifted Nov birthday DC who went to kindergarten at 5. No freaking way.

Just pushing gifted kids up a grade does not help them.  Preschool should be about fun and open ended learning. I had my ds in a completely playbased preschool for this reason. No letter of the week BS. He played games he and his friends made up about Greek mythology. He built stuff, he climbed, he rode scooters.

One grade skip doesn't help gifted kids much at all but it does increase the social distance between them and their peers.

If the preschool program is so rigid I would keep her home this year (hello, PANDEMIC anyway) and read with her, play games with her, play math games with her, and then put her in K next year.

My yds is a younger sibling as well, and he is mature for his age. He is far better able to handle social issues than his brother was at the same grades, being 6 months younger.

That combination of younger and socially behind and gifted makes kids really struggle socially, especially when they get to middle school age.

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This. I kind of had the reverse situation, but found parochial school KG way too rigid and academically focused for my anxious kid that was coming from a play-based preschool. In hindsight, the school should have had more than a clue after her performance on the assessment.

Parochials are all about the enrollment. I wouldn't trust this as having your child's best interests at heart.[/quote]

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