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We are holding our son back a year because we don't feel he is ready (he would be old enough to go this coming Fall). Could he handle it... yes, could he handle it well, no. Our local school seems to have no problem with kids not being able to handle the work/environment, they just make them repeat K. We are not willing to set our child up to fail because repeating would be a huge deal for him and would make it hard for him to succeed in the future (with his personality and sense of self-worth), whereas if we work with him for another year and let him go to a Pre-K program we feel he will be ready not only academically, but emotionally, and socially.
He has scattered development though, some things are average or above average, others are on the low end of the spectrum and he needs the individual attention and more time to even out before going to K (in our opinion). Even with the low student to teacher ratio at our school we feel he wouldn't get the individualized instruction tailored to what he needs and they would just label him and make him repeat.
Our other adopted son, though, he seems to be right on track and we have no reservations about sending him to K when he is scheduled to go, as of now that is.
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