Anonymous wrote:It's really hard to get approved for early entrance to K. I would not count on it. Be prepared to do PK for another year privately if you do move out here.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Gotta tell you, as someone who teaches college, I'd much rather have college freshmen as responsible, mature, independent, organized, experienced, and resilient as possible. If you think that's your kid at age 17 or brand-newly 18, good for you (and how you know this when they're 4 is even more impressive). But it's not most kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Being able to drive by yourself in the junior summer means you are opened to more summer job or internship opportunities. Also, 16-yo is the threshold for "young adults", and many universities and government agencies in this area do not accept any student interns until they are 16-yo no matter paid or un-paid, which means that your older classmates can do two summer internships while you can only do one. This poses a disadvantage to college application in elite programs like SMCS.

You are 16 regardless of what grade so it doesn’t matter. You are wanting it for your needs. These are silly reasons to hold back.

No. Can you do the math? The Sep. and Oct. kids who test-in will be still 15-yo when sophomore year ends, so do those kids born in summer, but their colleagues with Sep. birthday but a year older can drive legally by themselves by sophomore summer.

Assuming they have a car. A big assumption. My family has one car and the kids will not be using it daily. That’s what bus and metro are for.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Being able to drive by yourself in the junior summer means you are opened to more summer job or internship opportunities. Also, 16-yo is the threshold for "young adults", and many universities and government agencies in this area do not accept any student interns until they are 16-yo no matter paid or un-paid, which means that your older classmates can do two summer internships while you can only do one. This poses a disadvantage to college application in elite programs like SMCS.

You are 16 regardless of what grade so it doesn’t matter. You are wanting it for your needs. These are silly reasons to hold back.

No. Can you do the math? The Sep. and Oct. kids who test-in will be still 15-yo when sophomore year ends, so do those kids born in summer, but their colleagues with Sep. birthday but a year older can drive legally by themselves by sophomore summer.

Assuming they have a car. A big assumption. My family has one car and the kids will not be using it daily. That’s what bus and metro are for.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Being able to drive by yourself in the junior summer means you are opened to more summer job or internship opportunities. Also, 16-yo is the threshold for "young adults", and many universities and government agencies in this area do not accept any student interns until they are 16-yo no matter paid or un-paid, which means that your older classmates can do two summer internships while you can only do one. This poses a disadvantage to college application in elite programs like SMCS.

You are 16 regardless of what grade so it doesn’t matter. You are wanting it for your needs. These are silly reasons to hold back.

No. Can you do the math? The Sep. and Oct. kids who test-in will be still 15-yo when sophomore year ends, so do those kids born in summer, but their colleagues with Sep. birthday but a year older can drive legally by themselves by sophomore summer.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Being able to drive by yourself in the junior summer means you are opened to more summer job or internship opportunities. Also, 16-yo is the threshold for "young adults", and many universities and government agencies in this area do not accept any student interns until they are 16-yo no matter paid or un-paid, which means that your older classmates can do two summer internships while you can only do one. This poses a disadvantage to college application in elite programs like SMCS.

You are 16 regardless of what grade so it doesn’t matter. You are wanting it for your needs. These are silly reasons to hold back.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Being able to drive by yourself in the junior summer means you are opened to more summer job or internship opportunities. Also, 16-yo is the threshold for "young adults", and many universities and government agencies in this area do not accept any student interns until they are 16-yo no matter paid or un-paid, which means that your older classmates can do two summer internships while you can only do one. This poses a disadvantage to college application in elite programs like SMCS.

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Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

Those aren't really disadvantages at all. You aren't driving earlier by being held back a year as you cannot change your birthday. You can get a job at 15, but you just have to wait the following year, which isn't a big deal. I am glad we tested in and sent our child. I cannot imagine them being in HS for an entire year when they are 18.

Anonymous wrote:Sep and Oct birthday kids can test-in. Quite a few of my DC’s grademates did this and was successful. Though it’s a disadvantage at HS, when your classmates are old enough for an internship or summer job and can legally drive. For boys, lots of ppl think redshirting would be better than the other way around. I didn’t believe in this when my son was young and academically advanced. Now when looking retrospectively, this suggestion makes a lot of sense.

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Anonymous wrote:There's no such thing as "repeating a year" in preschool/Pre-K, so there's nothing to worry about. Early childhood education is for play, exploration, socialization, etc, plus some very basix exposure to letters and numbers. if he has been somewhere for 2 years that has been treating Pre-,K like a grade with an academic curriculum and goals, he needs a year of real quality play-based ECE even more (maybe consider a forest preschool or something like that to fill in what he's been missing.) Kindergarten is ridiculously academic these days-- delay it for your child as long as humanly possible (assuming you can afford to.)

It’s not academic at all.

MCPS kindergarten isn't? Are you nuts? They don't get any playtime on a regular basis except for a half-hour of recess, and maybe sometimes another half-hour a day during FIT time if they're not getting interventions (but even then they often just have the kids doing more academics, on the computers, etc.) The rest of the time they're just plugging through the curriculum, listening to the teacher, doing worksheets, and that sort of thing. It's pretty sad.

It’s school. They can play before and after school and weekends. I send my kids to learn not play. It’s not sad they are learning. Your attitude is sad.

Sounds like you don't understand what's developmentally appropriate for young children and how they learn. Play-based learning not only supports kids' mental health and social-emotional well-being, it actually helps kids academically as well. 5 and 6 year olds learn and remember things much better when they're made fun and interesting to them and get practiced through play; worksheets and lectures are much more likely to go in one ear and out the other.

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Anonymous wrote:There's no such thing as "repeating a year" in preschool/Pre-K, so there's nothing to worry about. Early childhood education is for play, exploration, socialization, etc, plus some very basix exposure to letters and numbers. if he has been somewhere for 2 years that has been treating Pre-,K like a grade with an academic curriculum and goals, he needs a year of real quality play-based ECE even more (maybe consider a forest preschool or something like that to fill in what he's been missing.) Kindergarten is ridiculously academic these days-- delay it for your child as long as humanly possible (assuming you can afford to.)

It’s not academic at all.

MCPS kindergarten isn't? Are you nuts? They don't get any playtime on a regular basis except for a half-hour of recess, and maybe sometimes another half-hour a day during FIT time if they're not getting interventions (but even then they often just have the kids doing more academics, on the computers, etc.) The rest of the time they're just plugging through the curriculum, listening to the teacher, doing worksheets, and that sort of thing. It's pretty sad.

It’s school. They can play before and after school and weekends. I send my kids to learn not play. It’s not sad they are learning. Your attitude is sad.

Sounds like you don't understand what's developmentally appropriate for young children and how they learn. Play-based learning not only supports kids' mental health and social-emotional well-being, it actually helps kids academically as well. 5 and 6 year olds learn and remember things much better when they're made fun and interesting to them and get practiced through play; worksheets and lectures are much more likely to go in one ear and out the other.