_*_*_*_ Tammy79_*_*_*_ re: red shirting

howleyshell

Nope - no decision yet.

We went to the (public) Kindergarten open house last Tuesday.  All of his pre-school friends got into the same class that he did which is great if we go ahead with it.

However... he was the ONLY boy who was 4 (the teacher had them say their names and how old they are).   There were only 2 girls who said they were 4.  The rest were all 5 (15 kids).  Several of them were missing teeth!!

Right now we have a nanny (I work part time) but we're making the switch to a local daycare/school that comes highly recommended by many friends.  He'll be going there 2 days a week this summer and I went ahead and held his space for the fall in case we do red shirt him.

They said that they'll give me feed back on his readiness once they've gotten to know him better this summer.

But here's the catch.  I KNOW he can handle kindy academically.  Next year really isn't my concern - it's farther down the road that I keep thinking of.

When I talk to people about this real life experience has me leaning towards red shirting (both my nanny and my DH's ex wife have summer birthday kids, neither red shirted at kindy and both ended up holding them back at some point during elementary school).

But DH is leaning towards sending him because he's ready for Kindy so why shouldn't he go.

Still no decision and I doubt we'll make one until the middle of July at the earliest.

No clue what's gonna be the deciding factor.  

What's your time line for a decision?

 

tammy79

We are in the exact same position, in fact DS went in for an assessment this morning at a private school for Kindy, He answered all the questions correctly, the principle was very impressed. His Pre-k teacher thinks he might be gifted, but maturity level is not quite there yet, all the kids in his class are at least a year older than he is, I am just so torn as to what to do, This is the hardest decision for us. 

DH wants him to go to Kindy, and possibly holding him back for another year of Kindy, if it's determine that he needs it, in fact he called me on his way home from the assessment with DS and said that we should send him.

I think our timeline is also mid July, The Private school starts here on Aug 16th, while our regular preschool is AUG 30th, we've paid registration fee at both places just in case. 

We did sign Ben up for a Kindy readiness Camp, it's 2 weeks long, and the teacher said that she would re-evaluate him by the end of the camp, and let us know, but it wont be a huge decision factor for us. 

I keep saying to myself all kids are different, and maybe he'll be ok. My younger Brother who is only 17, just graduated High school with honors, he always has been the youngest in his class, extremely bright,  so my parents are totally pressuring us to send DS to Kindy, I just have some reservation about the whole thing.

I just have no clue what to do

Keep me updated on what you guys decide to do.