Redshirt Kindergarten? (1 Viewer)

[Mrs. Rannous]

We had the same decision this year.  Sept birthday with a December cutoff.  We decided to enroll in Kindergarten.  Our main thought was if things turn for the worse with COVID and there are lockdowns/remote school we can always just have her repeat K next school year.

This.  If the kid is happy, great.  If not, just go back a step.  I would hate for him to wonder why the other kids left, but he didn't.  This is more a go with the flow thing, I think.

I went to college when I was 17.  The drinking age then was 18.  No biggies at all.  I can't stand beer.  I was completely ready to go, but I had a lot of experience doing things on my own.  Again, it's an individual thing.  And community college can bridge the gap if necessary.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

The flip side is he is definitely there intellectually and seems to be there socially. I'd hate for him to twiddle his thumbs for the next two or three years and get put off of school before it even really begins.

I think you just made the case for sending him on.

A lot of the points being made seem to deal with stuff that is way in the future.  But this choice is a now thing.  I would go with what is best now.  Again, I would have been miserable being a grade behind my friends.

 

[belljr]

I think you just made the case for sending him on.

A lot of the points being made seem to deal with stuff that is way in the future.  But this choice is a now thing.  I would go with what is best now.  Again, I would have been miserable being a grade behind my friends.

Were they your friends when you were 4?

There is a 0.001% chance he'll even remember any of these kids

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Were they your friends when you were 4?

There is a 0.001% chance he'll even remember any of these kids

Yes.  I moved into the neighborhood when I was one-and-a-half.  One of them sent me a birthday card last week.  Not that it's so important now.  But it sure was then.  What was I supposed to do while they were in school without me?  Nose pick with some kids I didn't even know?  We walked to school and home together.  I would have been left behind.

 

[Gr00vus]

I thought this thread was going to be about kindergarten for the disposable security crewmembers on the original Star Trek series. Carry on.

 

[Dezbelief]

My brother and I are 18 months apart and were a grade apart. The sibling rivalry was fierce for everything, friends included. Spacing kids would be my recommendation. 

Mind explaining the thoughts behind this?

 

[AcerFC]

My son is in 6th grade. We did it. Best decision ever. His bday is Nov 19 with a Dec 1 cutoff. You will never find one person who says they did it and it was a mistake. And if anyone in here did (I didn’t read all posts) then that will be the first one. I’ve been teaching for 22 years and it comes up a lot. 

 

[snellman]

It is easier to wait a year before starting Kindergarten than hold them back after Kindergarten, so if there are any doubts or questions I would wait.  Our youngest had a June Birthday so he would have started Kindergarten in August after turning 5 in June. We had no doubt he was ready, but wanted him to have every advantage possible so we waited a year. (This was after the experience with his older brother who we wanted to hold back after Kindergarten because we could see it was a struggle but the school would not let us and he struggled every year his whole school career and didn't graduate).  He turned 6 in June and started in August.  Best decision we made.  He is a very smart student and we were lucky that his teachers in elementary would give him "extra credit" assignments in order to keep him from being bored, but now that he is in 8th grade, we have no doubts we made the right decision unlike with his older brother we wondered if we should have fought harder to keep him back his whole school career.

 

[Gawain]

Last two stories pretty convincing. Thanks for all the stories and feed back. Feel good about giving him the extra year.

 

[Nigel]

We held my son back in 7th grade when he moved from public to a private school. He's a senior now, worked out great. Best part, from my view, is I got an extra year of living in the same house with my best bud. Priceless. 

 

[culdeus]

I mean it's got nearly no drawbacks, it's easily the best thing you can do to ensure your kid ends up successful.  The drawback is the cost in child care which can be too much for some to bear.   It is very regional.  Of course in the south where people are both poor and dumb it's far less likely to happen than in the NE where it's more or less automatic.

 

[SWC]

me and a lot of my friends used to be 4 once but i dont think any of us were held back take that to the bank brohans