spacing in school....

howleyshell · June 2009

If you had a choice would you put your kids 1 year apart in school or 2?

And why??

Mama Jan · June 2009

I plan to keep them in the class they "should" be in unless there is a real reason to move them up / keep them back. They should be 1 year apart and neither one will be particularly young for their class. I don't really care either way although I think having 2 boys, it will be fun to have them closer in grades - I'm sure many of their friends will overlap.

karin&ben · June 2009

My oldest 2 (12 & 10 now) are one year apart in school (6th & 5th Grade). It just ended up that way based on their ages at the time. My 3rd and 4th will be 2 grades apart (2nd & K) and the new baby will be 2 grades apart I believe from #4. I wouldn't purposely decide to place them either way, i just go by the birthdates. I am less driven by the gap in grade level between the two children, than I am by the age they start. I'd rather start my kids on the young side as opposed to making them the oldest one in class. If starting them younger made them closer in grade, so be it.

punkfiction · June 2009

i plan to try sawyer as the youngest in her class for MDO/preschool and see how it goes - if she stays that way, aidan and sawyer will be one grade apart. if not (and she ends up the oldest bc of her summer bday), she will be one grade apart from dc3. no matter how i look at it - ill have 3 kids in 4 grades.

ABMcKinney · June 2009

I think the way our school system works the kids will be 2 years apart and I'm fine with that. I'd like a year in between graduation parties, college and my boys moving out!!!

middlemarch26 · June 2009

Mine will be two years apart. DS will be one of the youngest in his class, and DD will have an October birthday, so she'll be one of the older ones in her class.

If I were having DD a month or two earlier, I'd go ahead and start her in school a year earlier if she seemed ready. But I think the cutoff is sometime in September.

I guess I am kind of glad they'll be two years apart. I don't think it really matters though.

MsTammy · June 2009

We will go with the regular school guidelines depending on when their birthday falls. Chase is a February baby so he will start K at 5 yo and Baby #3 will be a November/December baby so they will probably be 2 years behind and have to start K at 5 then turn 6 right away.

chasbride07 · June 2009

My boys will be 2 years apart in school which is what DH and I had hoped for when we decided to TTC #2. We wanted a year inbetween.

marriedgirl05 · June 2009

If we go by birthdates, they will be one year apart in school. I'm not so sure I like that for lots of different reasons. But then I hate for my youngest to be 6 when he starts Kindergarten (unless he needs to be maturity-wise). So I guess we'll see. This isn't a decision we've made yet.

What about you?

howleyshell · June 2009

I don't know yet.

Dylan is a late July birthday and I was struggling with holding him back or not.

Now that he's starting to read I'm kinda thinking maybe I need to go ahead and let him go earlier. ?That would put them 2 grades apart instead of 1.

I'm on the fence.

I guess I've still got some time to decide!?

Just wondering what everyone else was doing....?

stef2008 · June 2009

My girls will be a year apart in school and I'm fine with that. I like the idea of them being right behind eachother... just not looking forward to all the expenses of high school back to back (cars, proms, graduations, COLLEGE!) lol

krub · June 2009

Most likely, mine will only be a year apart in school. My DS is almost 4 and I just cannot see him starting kindergarten on time. He is one of those kids that would really benefit by having an extra year. He has a later birthday, too. DD's bday is older and I know there will be no reason for me to hold her back. so, that is how it will be.

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