Originally Posted by MsFriz
When I went down the street to a small private school that creates an individualized curriculum for each kid, they told me that accelerating my son was a "no brainer" and that they would happily accept him to start kindergarten at age 4 1/2, with subject acceleration in addition to the early start, which has been a huge success.

Our experience as well. Mr W is in PreK now at age 3 doing 1st grade subject acceleration and will start K at 4.

Public schools are extremely rigid.