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Thanks for all of your postings. I welcome more too!!

This is such a hard decision for me. When we went to conferences with the teacher, she said academically, she thinks he will be fine. Socially, she thinks he doesn't play with all of the children, so she recommended him staying back for that reason. She says he doesn't ask for help all the time either.

I know that for my husband and I, some of it is about him being in a structured environment and a small portion of it is about our work schedules. My husband will be changing jobs this summer and therefore, our son would be in a lot of home daycare because I work days. We think he would do much better in a structured Kindergarten environment (half days) and then go half days to another structured program in the school and continue speech therapy. We know it is a possibility that he would fail Kgtn, but we feel very optomistic that he will do well. However, I would hate for him to be frustrated because things are moving too fast.