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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My August son basically "failed" his entrance evaluation for first grade. The school said he wasn't ready, even though he was already reading. He was very shy and anxious, and kind of shut down during the evaluation. They recommended pre-first, something I didn't even know existed before that. At the time, I thought it was just a scam to get an extra year of $$ from us if we went to the school. In the end, we did it though, and it was easily the best thing for him. He did the pre-first year, then first grade was with many of those kids and most were within 3-6 months in terms of age. He wasn't the oldest, wasn't the youngest.

The class above him, which would have been his if we sent him right to first grade, turned out to be very clique-y and just not all that nice. My son's class had great kids and great parents. And we got an extra year with him before he moves away to college and beyond. He's in HS now and in hindsight, that pre-first year was one of the best decisions we made. [/quote]

interestingly, what worked really well for your child was being in a class with a small spread of a few months, rather than with the extra-large spread that regular redshirting creates.[/quote]

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