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YES it matters! Every one of these threads -- of a parent asking for advice for a child in independent school -- gets derailed by public school posts. It's not a matter of better or worse or math curricula or whatever. It's simply a question of the typical age spread in a class room which is NOT. THE. SAME. in independent schools. Your young-for-grade child will have a decent peer group in public of other young-for-grade kids. S/he will not in independent schools. Your "old" for grade kid is not old in independent schools. Those with an axe to grind against redshirting keep hijacking these discussions, and it's so annoying, and unhelpful for those considering where their child will fall in the age spread [b]for an independent school[/b].

My summer birthday kid did a "pre-first" year, as is nearly universal in their independent school, and isn't the oldest by a long shot. If OP's kid is a summer birthday and enters what would be "on time" for public school, s/he well may be the only kid in that age band who did so. [/quote]

My children also attend independent schools where it is expected that summer birthdays and often late spring birthdays will be held back, but every class includes a small handful of children who are within that band who were not held back. It tends to mean that the grade skews old, but has a 2 year age range that's particularly light on the young end.

My youngest, with a late summer birthday, did not attend Pre-First, and never lacked for a decent peer group in her independent school (and has not always been the youngest in her class, and has always had a few classmates very similar in age even when she has been the youngest). Her old-for-grade friends similarly never lacked a decent peer group, and always had classmates very similar in age. Suggesting otherwise seems to highlight the axe you're wishing to grind?[/quote]

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