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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you send him to a small private kindergarten, which will probably cost about the same as preschool, and see how he does. Not great - repeat kindergarten when entering public school. Great - enter public school in first grade.

(Public school kindergarten sucks, by the way. I sent two kids through it, and it was like pre-k in terms of barely academic, but much higher expectations for sitting still. My boy did ok but hated it and emotionally wrung out every day from so much sitting; my girl liked it. But I was never impressed with the curriculum and overcrowding. First grade much, much better.)[/quote]

This is what I would do. Mom of a July birthday girl. She's in 3rd and we were planning to start public kindergarten in fall 2020, then obviously pandemic. Our district did not open in person, so I sent her to private kindergarten (where she had been in preschool). It was a nice option knowing that if it didn't go great, we could do public kindergarten the next year. Or just move her to public 1st. We ended up doing public 1st and while she's the absolute youngest in her grade, we have no regrets. She's social, well behaved, doing well in school (amazing in reading, more average in math). She's also one of the tallest, so I have a hard time visualizing her being in the grade below her.[/quote]

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