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you want to hold her back this year?  or next year?  If her birthday is a year away then I wouldn't worry about it yet because she will change so much.  I know someone in Moco who started their kid on time and then they were told by the k teacher to pull him out and out him back in preschool.  [/quote]

I don't want to hold back at all.  I want her to go at age 5.  At 3, she is reading and doing a lot of other skills and there are very few academic preschools so we will have a year of learning loss beyond what we do at home.  If a child is doing basics of reading and writing and turning 5 in September, they should be going to kindergarden as many 5 year olds barely know their alphabet.  A 11/1 cut off is reasonable to me, even a 12/31, but a 9/1 is way to early.  I would tell that K teacher, my child is age appropriate to be here and maybe she should modify her teaching style to meet the child's needs better.  We switched preschools from 2 to 3 and the difference was huge.  We went to a more academic structured program and she just thrived.[/quote]

This is just silly. It's very nice that at 11/1 cut-off will work perfectly for your snowflake, but that simply moves the line and creates difficulties and choices for another set of parents. You get that, right? An 11/1 cut-off means the parents of children born in October and November worry about what to do, instead of the parents of children born in August and September. There has to be a line drawn someplace, and some people are going to be inconvenienced or upset by it and some children better or worse served by it no matter where it is drawn. Can you pull your gaze away from your own navel for even a second?[/quote]

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