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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just enroll your kid in kindergarten already. Yes, your kid will be among the youngest and the early years of grade school will have more twists and turns, but in the long run it's better.[b] That way, your student graduates from high school at 17 instead of 19 or 20. [/b]

Our summer birthday started college at almost 18 and will graduate with a bachelor's at 21. A lot of her redshirted peers in the same grade are already 23. They'll graduate with a bachelor's at 24/25/26. Half their 20s are already over, and now what? Grad school? They'll be almost 30 by the time they hit the workforce...

Look ahead 20 years, OP. Redshirting actually holds your kid back later.[/quote]

This is….objectively not better. Also (and, again.) if they’re graduating in May at 20 - or, in the vast majority of cases, at 19…it’s not redshirting, something else is going on  [/quote]

That’s what you’re missing. There are now kids who have Jan/Feb birthdays with a Sep 1 cutoff held back for “the gift of time” and the kids are tough additions in the grade. In this case, they boss around the younger kids and there have been issues with teasing. It’s not ideal for the other kids. [/quote]

Yup, this describes our situation perfectly. Teachers can’t be asked to teach 16-month chronological and developmental age spans, especially in K and 1st. There are huge differences between a 5.5 year old and a 7 year old and it’s insane to have them in the same classroom unless it’s a true Montessori program.

I posted about my April bday DD who is 8 and in 3rd grade. She has a classmate who just turned 10 and a few others who then 10 in April and May. She was teased relentlessly by 2 of these girls in K-2nd- they called her short, a baby, and some other stuff that was genuinely mean. My DD struggled with comebacks and sticking up for herself in K especially because she was developmentally normal for her age but 14 months behind these girls.

A boy my DD’s age has been teased by one of the soon-to-be 10 year olds both his size and athletic ability. Of course he’s shorter and slower- he wasn’t even alive when his classmates were walking![/quote]

It would be more than 16 months if you are talking a newly turned 5 year old and a 7 year old.  The problem comes in when they have unrealistic expectations of the 5 year old who is developmentally appropriate for 5, and comparing them to a 7 year old.  It's not healthy.  My kid is the youngest and its never been an issue but its strange when friends are a year+ older with similar birthdays in the same grade.[/quote]

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