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Ps, I found on the convenant website a good kindergarten readiness assessment tool. I realize they are in the biz of selling curriculum, but most of the questions seemed reasonable to me and it covers some social stuff, language skills, etc., for anyone interested in this sort of thing: http://www.covenanthome.com/kready.htmedit - here's the auto-scored one. http://www.covenanthome.com/kready.asp
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Edited - yes it can be iffy if you are advocating for a child more than a month or two off the mark. Some of the private K's have their own equally arbitrary age limits! I am dealing with one right now, although they seem to be softening up a bit!!  We couldn't afford private school at all (it was more costly than daycare/preschool), and I found, while looking into prior to DS6 being in pre-K, they had tougher age restrictions (any of the ones close to us, anyway), especially with DS6's birthday being in December.
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Not necessarily! Some of the private K's have their own equally arbitrary age limits! I am dealing with one right now, although they seem to be softening up a bit!! Catholic schools are typically less expensive than independent ones, so we contacted a few when we wanted to enroll our son in KG at 4. One school principal said the archdiocese of Boston prohibited early admission, another school have never heard of such a rule! One needs to ask around. Unfortunately, in a recession, many parents cannot afford even Catholic school tuition, and some have been closing down. Vouchers are needed to increase options for parents. We put our bright girl with a January birthday in preschool at age 2y8mo, and she has done fine. She will be 3y8mo this September, and we will put her in a preschool class with 4-year-olds.
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell
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DD has a late Sept birthday. The public schools are 12/31 for cut-off but the privates are 9/1 so privates are not an option until 2nd grade, where they accept them.
The thing that puzzled me is that the new private gifted school Speyer, is doing a strict 9/1 cut-off. DD would have had to redo K if she went there.
Update on the schools front. DD did not get a spot at the citywide gifted school (there were only 2 spots) but she must have had a pretty low lottery number as she got the best district G&T school. Very few spots available. Although spots may open up at the citywide over the summer, the next kid in the lottery gets it. I am fighting hard.
But I think with the CTY DD will be fine. Great peer group. And the school will work with us. Since DD is one of the younger due to birthdate, I am not pushing a grade acceleration so much as pullout for the math which CTY can easily do.
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In the end, does this really save the school district money? I mean now they will pay for it at the end of the child's K-12 schooling by having them in 12th a year later. We have the Sept 1st birthday, and to me it's just a crock! 
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We just finished a year of private Kindergarten. Our daughter ( to be 6 on 9/4) was more than ready for Kindergarten, but the State of Missouri won't fund a child who is not 5 by July 31.
In Missouri, the school districts don't even have a choice to test children with late birthdays. Fortunately once Kindergarten is over and the child is over 5 on July 31 the districts are allowed to place the child in whichever grade they wish.
Ironically, Missouri Law does not require Kindergarten attendance, they just use it to stop young children from going to school.
Fortunately the private program was great. Our daughter was in a small class with other bright kids, reading at their own levels, conducting science experiments and working through fractions and multiplication (with manipulatives). Again, all this was done with the needs of each child in mind.
We'll see how the transition to first grade goes in August. Actually, we probably won't know if there is a problem until a few months into the year, once the "newness" wears off.
wish us luck!
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The Burlington Free Press has an editorial supporting the mother who wants to relax eligibility for KG. Editorial: Consider ways to give boost to bright students Thursday, June 10, 2010 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/...er-ways-to-give-boost-to-bright-students
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And the first comment I read is: Every parent believes they have a little genius. If that be true, why haven't we solved any of the World's problems and they're getting worse? Grrrr.
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I know parents who left their child back on purpose , redshirting I guess it is called. Does this really insure that child wil be smarter and above the others?
It annoys me because now that my son skipped a grade some kids could be 2 years older than him.
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