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[quote=Anonymous]This thread has been very interesting to me, and frankly, explains some of the responses I have gotten from experienced upper NW parents when I have lightly worried about my late Sept bday child. All of my research pointed to DCPS NOT allowing red shirting and even I had, before this article, been aware that they will put a kid who redshirted PK straight into first grade without kindergarten. And yet some parents have said "oh you can do it you just need to ask the principal". Seems like some of these white-majority upper NW elementary schools were playing fast and loose with the rules for a while.

Look, my kid is only 2 right now and will enter DCPS PK3 in the fall. It gives me a little anxiety just because it seems like everything you read online is that you shouldn't send your 4 year old to kindergarten or your 13 year old to high school or your 17 year old to college. Especially if they are a boy, which mine is. But I live in NE without these special treatment principles so he will attend school when he is supposed to and that is that. At the end of the day he has two active and involved parents and isn't experiencing poverty so in all likelihood he will do absolutely fine. And if we encounter major problems, we will handle them as they arise.

The funny thing is that after all my stress over his sept bday, I am about to have a second kid with a sept bday thanks to needing an early scheduled delivery. lol[/quote]

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