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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a fall bday kid and did not even try EEK.    K-3 was frustrating.   Started w the magnets in 4th and its been great.   Heading to MS now and I am beyond glad with our decision.    I would rather some boredom here and there versus having him have to grow up too quickly.[/quote]

How are they growing up too quickly?  So, basically you dumb down your kid to meet your needs.[/quote]

Haven't dumbed anything down.  He is in the grade he should be based on a cutoff.  Single best decision we have made in his schooling hands down (for us).

Clearly when you are a grade ahead you grow up more quickly.   Kids get family life class in 5th grade for one,  5th graders are getting cell phones and on all sort of social media.   And obviously they head off to college earlier.     He gets an extra year to be a kid.

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I am not getting the issue.  I have a September kid who I went ahead and he'll have a cell phone earlier than 5th most likely as its for my need, not his.  If my kid was allowed to have one now, he'd have it at school.  You just don't give him the download passcode and put major restrictions on it.   He already is asking questions about 6 regarding family life - who cares where it came from but I'm glad he's coming to us first.  You cannot protect kids forever and I'm a very protective parent.  Holding them back does not protect them, parenting does.  When you keep them behind, they act much younger based on the younger age group they are with vs. their peers which indirectly makes them less mature because of the situation they are placed in.[/quote]
You're talking about something like redshirting, though. All the poster who you're quoting did is have her child enter school at the age he was supposed to, rather than make him apply for early admission. There was no "holding back" or "keeping him behind." Early admission is certainly not for everyone. [/quote]

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