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medussa · 02-22-2012, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by crimsonshedemon

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Originally Posted by medussa

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Originally Posted by crimsonshedemon

Ahh. My son's birthday is at the end of July so he's young for his grade. I wish I would've held him back. Academically he's great, he's an honor student and all that... actually gets bored with school.
For everything else, it would benefit him to have waited. So if you have any doubts, hold him back a year.

My son is end of July (me too). Our cutoff for kindergarten is December 2nd, so all of my July babies are pretty much in the middle of the pack, age-wise (not the youngest in the class, nor the oldest). He's also an honors student and doing great academically. But socially, I think he could have benefited from another year at home. I think certain boys could benefit from being the oldest in the class. My daughter did fine, but she has always been very mature.

Our cut off is December 3 but there are very few students younger than my son. Most have been held back. A lot has to do with sports. We are in a very competetive "power league". There are sophmores who are older than my son who's a junior. It's crazy. Boys definitely do not mature like girls. My daughter is 20 months younger and she's always been ahead of my son in maturity/responsbility.

I've heard this is a big thing in certain communities. I'm not particularly fond of this practice. My son's passion is music, but I wouldn't have held him back for sports if that were his thing. It's just not a good enough reason for me. I believe in holding a child back for cognitive or physical reasons (like being very small for their age), or for plain ol' lack of maturity. Come to think of it, my son could have used an extra year to work on that dang handwriting of his!

Crimson, I'm reading your original post again. Your son sounds quite smart and doing very well academically. Do you think he might be bored with school because it's too easy for him?