But in first, without that background, a much higher level of ability to do seatwork is expected.
By the sounds of it, academically whatever you do won't be enough, so it sounds worth pursuing as a starting place.
I think it does depend on the kindergarten. Our PS has only full day highly academic kindergarten. It's really tough for some of the younger kids in the group to adjust. It felt like 1st grade to me in terms of content and expectations. We pulled out after 1st to homeschool, but for my DS (who is old for grade) it would have definitely been better to do kindergarten and skip first if we were going to have a longer successful PS run (1st was a year long disaster where he learned nothing). Our kindergarten was much more flexible in terms of being able to meet kids that were at different places.
