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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If everyone would just send their kid to school when they are supposed to, we wouldn't have these large age gaps is the classroom.  My kid entered kindergarten at 4 and turned 5 two weeks later.  If you hold yours back it creates unfair age gaps for those of us who follow the rules.  [/quote]

I don't understand how the age gaps disadvantage your child.

We redshirted our early summer birthday kid because it was obvious she wasn't ready for K when she had just turned 5. No diagnosis, so we couldn't have gotten a letter from the doctor or "proved" that red shirting was correct, it was just obvious to us and her preschool teachers. Fast forward several years, she has an IEP for a learning disability and is academically one of the weakest kids and is absolutely in the right grade. I don't understand how her presence is hurting your kid.[/quote]

Holding her back likely hurt HER.  She lost out on a year of the intervention that she needed.[/quote]

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