11:56 sounds like talking my DD! Except my DD has late Nov. birthday and we finished kindergarten in California. But our base ES asked her to repeat k (she read chapter books while other kids learned ABC, she did multiplication while other kids learned 123). They were very reluctant to give a test on her, but simply said she was not socially ready (?! how?! my DD started fulltime daycare at 2 and had so many friend each year). We finally had to pull her out and sent her to a private school. She thrived there. Both her NNAT and Cogat composite are above 150. Hopefully, she will go to the gt center instead of our base school next year. I know a lot of public schools is willing to take kids as 1st grader if they finish k in private school. But not our base school, UGGG!

PP, can I ask which private school do you sent you kid in?

Oh, don't get me started on this issue LOL!

Our DD has a late Oct birthday. She did 2 full years of preschool and loved it. We happened to live in CA the summer before her 5th birthday. CA's cut off is Dec, so she was able to start Kinder in Aug at the age of 4 (turning 5 that Oct). It was full day, year round school there. She did amazing in school even though she was one of the youngest, top of her class in most subject and socially well adjusted.

We moved to FCPS in late Jan of that school year. FCPS would NOT let our daughter continue in Kindergarten that year. Our local ES was very supportive, but the county shot them down and rejected her enrollment!

I fought up the chain of command so to speak, every time someone told me no, I asked to speak to their boss.

The final answer I got was basically that is was a money issue. That the state does not give funding for kids who are past the benchmark and that "FCPS already has such a large population of students" that they basically could not afford to "eat the cost" of my child! (I will say this, Ido not know if that information is true, it was just what I was told at the time)

Then it was not so nicely stated that more than likely my child wouldn't be able to keep up with FCPS kids since she was "coming from a California public school". UGGGG

Our local ES advised us if our DD had completed kindergarten elsewhere, that they would be willing to "test her into first grade" the following year. I asked if I could home school her for the remaining part of the year, and they said no. Partially because they wanted to hear from her teachers to make sure she was socially ready.

We ended up enrolling her in a private school to complete the year. In May we had her evaluated by a 1st grade teacher at our local ES and the guidance counselor (along with report cards from her other schools and letters from teachers).

Needless to say, they enrolled her into 1st grade the following year.

I can't begin to tell you all the crap we got from people for "pushing our child". There was no pushing, she was barely past the cut off, and legitimately started school at the right age for where we lived at the time.

Our DD has flourished, so much so she is in the pool for the AAP for 3rd grade.

I would say to wait to see how your child is at that time and move accordingly. I am glad we had our DD start school when she did - for her it was perfect...for others it may not be!

Good luck to you.

Does anyone else see the irony of the above exchange being in a thread about maturity/when to start kindergarten?

Our kindergartner actually had a little tiff with his friend recently about who's dad was stronger. It was cute - but only because they are in kindergarten.

In any event - OP, our DS has a late Sept birthday. He was fine academically and had no behavior issues, so school said he should start K on time. However, we decided to hold him back. He just did not have the maturity to follow directions and actively participate in class. Also, fine motor skills needed time to develop. Turned out this was a good decision, and his K peers seem to be his true, age-appropriate peers. (DS seems less mature than the first graders in the school.) These are things you may wish to consider as you make your decision.

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Oh good then you will be able to find your way to the truck stop.

You can act as superior as you'd like, but I'll clue you in on something. I cuss...and yet graduated from undergrad and grad Ivy league schools and now make over $350k/year. But keep pretending you are better than me b/c I happened to type a "cuss" word.

The old saying is true....money can't buy you class. I am very successful myself (executive in a Fortune 40 company) and yet don't feel the need to conduct myself in that way. And keep in mind, you threw the first punch by calling me names. I was just responding to a really silly comment about not sending a child to school early because they would not be able to get into clubs.

Oh and....good bye. I will not be feeding your insecurities any longer.

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Oh good then you will be able to find your way to the truck stop.

You can act as superior as you'd like, but I'll clue you in on something. I cuss...and yet graduated from undergrad and grad Ivy league schools and now make over $350k/year. But keep pretending you are better than me b/c I happened to type a "cuss" word.

The only solution we found for an October birthday was to have our child in a Montessori school, some of which will take children under 3 years for the 3's year. You then go through kindergarten there and start your child in 1st grade wherever they will accept her. There is probably a test given, but others have done this and if you go to a school that prepares them well enough, it isn't usually a problem. There are also some traditional schools that don't adhere to the cutoff, but there are just less of them, so you have to check around. My oldest was an October birthday and it turned out fine to keep him in his year so if you want to hold your daughter back that would be ok too, but the second child makes the decision a little more difficult I think. I kind of wish Virginia schools were similar to Montgomery County schools where they let children test in 1 month after the cutoff date, but for now you usually have to do kindergarten private if you want to go that route.

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Are you really using the fact that her child will not be able to get into clubs in college as a reason to hold him back???? Now I have heard every stupid Red Shirting excuse on DCUM!

Why don't you actually read the thread before being an asshole. The poster isn't talking about holding her kid back a year (i.e., redshirting) but pushing to get him admitted a year early.

Yes, I was not referring to the OP, but to the poster quoted above. So I did read the thread...and the quote about is what I was reacting to. This was not aimed at the OP.

And by the way...nice language.

Ummm...nice try except that the quoted power wasn't talking about red-shirting anyways. I may have a potty mouth, but at least I know how to read.

Oh good then you will be able to find your way to the truck stop.

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Anonymous wrote:
Are you really using the fact that her child will not be able to get into clubs in college as a reason to hold him back???? Now I have heard every stupid Red Shirting excuse on DCUM!

Why don't you actually read the thread before being an asshole. The poster isn't talking about holding her kid back a year (i.e., redshirting) but pushing to get him admitted a year early.

Yes, I was not referring to the OP, but to the poster quoted above. So I did read the thread...and the quote about is what I was reacting to. This was not aimed at the OP.

And by the way...nice language.

Ummm...nice try except that the quoted power wasn't talking about red-shirting anyways. I may have a potty mouth, but at least I know how to read.

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Anonymous wrote:
Are you really using the fact that her child will not be able to get into clubs in college as a reason to hold him back???? Now I have heard every stupid Red Shirting excuse on DCUM!

Why don't you actually read the thread before being an asshole. The poster isn't talking about holding her kid back a year (i.e., redshirting) but pushing to get him admitted a year early.

Yes, I was not referring to the OP, but to the poster quoted above. So I did read the thread...and the quote about is what I was reacting to. This was not aimed at the OP.

And by the way...nice language.