December babies

[playfelt]

Mimi makes a good point in that as long as your child has a chance to experience and learn some academic skills and a chance to mature socially that it is better to hold them back than to risk going and failing. Of course you will never know if the holding back was truly needed but if it turns out it was you will have a very frustrated learner down the road if you don't hold back.

Of course there is probably the option to withdraw at Thanksgiving or something I mean school isn't compulsory till a child reaches age 6. In many countries and with the Waldorf method that is when kids actually start school from an academic standpoint.

[sunnydays]

I grew up in a rural area and we did not have kindergarten, so I started school at 6 (grade one). I never attened preschool or daycare and I don't think my mum did a whole lot of preparing me specifically for school...except for the fact that she read to us a lot and instilled a love of reading in us. I learned to read and write very quickly at school and was always pretty much a straight A student...so I definitely agree that attending kindergarten or JK does not really get kids ahead academically.

Mimi makes a good point in that as long as your child has a chance to experience and learn some academic skills and a chance to mature socially that it is better to hold them back than to risk going and failing. Of course you will never know if the holding back was truly needed but if it turns out it was you will have a very frustrated learner down the road if you don't hold back.

Of course there is probably the option to withdraw at Thanksgiving or something I mean school isn't compulsory till a child reaches age 6. In many countries and with the Waldorf method that is when kids actually start school from an academic standpoint.