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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote[b]=Anonymous]Can you send him to a small private kindergarten, which will probably cost about the same as preschool, and see how he does. Not great - repeat kindergarten when entering public school. Great - enter public school in first grade.[/b]

(Public school kindergarten sucks, by the way. I sent two kids through it, and it was like pre-k in terms of barely academic, but much higher expectations for sitting still. My boy did ok but hated it and emotionally wrung out every day from so much sitting; my girl liked it. But I was never impressed with the curriculum and overcrowding. First grade much, much better.)[/quote]

I came here today this. It buys you time to make a more informed decision. [/quote]

Agree with the above PPs.  Kindergarten isn’t the issue, it is middle school.  Which is hard to predict how they will grow and mature as a teen compared to peers when they are 4-5.  Few people regret redshirting, plus skipping a grade later on is always a possibility if it is true issue.

My own son has a Sept birthday.  Our cut off is Sept 1, but his preschool teacher was adamant we get a waiver and have him should start K at 4, a few weeks before turning 5.  He did fine and is always a 99th percentile kid academically.  But when we moved  out of district and started private, I had him do another year of 6th.  He is a later bloomer and was very much child-like at 12. Academically he still would have been top of class for 7th as well- whether he was in 6th or 7th he would have still been ahead academically and need to be challenged at home.  So we put him in the class we thought he would fit in best socially.  Now going into high school, he has all the advanced classes available to take and is thriving socially and emotionally.  Deciding to red shirt or not is more about the long game than the now [/quote]

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