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same boat with daughter
My dd has a late August Bday and she makes the cutoff to go to K (in two years not this year) by 11 days. She is currently in the integrated preschool in our town and at this point I am leaning toward giving her an extra year. She is plenty bright but is also the poster child for overactive and impulsive (no formal ADHD label just yet...) The preschool has made it very clear that the district policy is to send all kids who turn 5 before Sept 1 to K and that exceptions almost never happen. Probably because it is far cheaper to provide special needs services in K than preschool....its all about the money.
So that means either I fight the district...I find a private option (there are apparently some "transitional K programs for kids with summer bdays in the area) or I sent her to K and hope for the best. She is emotionally likely to need the extra year, I am concerned about the fact that she is quite tall for her age and is still jumping percentiles in hight for age measurements. (when she came home she was 5% now she is 63rd%) Like boys who are small/late developing have difficulty girls who are tall/early developing have difficulty as well...So I am struggling with this issue as well. Many of my friends are teachers and they all say give her the extra year...that is probably what I will do but it is definately a decision that I think and wonder about often.
Best of luck to you and your son.
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