Cassie's birthday is at the end of August, she barely made the cutoff. I went ahead and sent her and she stayed in public school through K and 1st grade. She was definately more immature than her classmates, but academically she did fine. Her age had a definate impact on our decision to home school though, she just wasn't keeping up socially with her peers.
Now she's starting high school. I think she'll do fine, even though she'll be one of the youngest in her class.
My son's b-day is in July and we held him back a year without a second thought. I've heard that girls should be a full 5 and boys a full 5-1/2 before starting kdg. I'm sure lots of kids go earlier than that and do fine, but we just wanted to make sure he had every advantage going in.
Cassie's birthday is at the end of August, she barely made the cutoff. I went ahead and sent her and she stayed in public school through K and 1st grade. She was definately more immature than her classmates, but academically she did fine. Her age had a definate impact on our decision to home school though, she just wasn't keeping up socially with her peers.
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My son's b-day is in July and we held him back a year without a second thought. I've heard that girls should be a full 5 and boys a full 5-1/2 before starting kdg. I'm sure lots of kids go earlier than that and do fine, but we just wanted to make sure he had every advantage going in.
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