The weaker sex

[CountDeMoney]

My sister was held back.  There was no stigma, nobody even knew.  Why would they?  Why would anybody know or care if my kid enters Kindergarten a little later?  We are not talking about repeating grades here.

And we're not talking about your sister or kid, either.  Talking about the guy that was already shaving in 7th grade.  Don't think anybody cares in this day and age about waiting out a year for Kindergarten.

[derspiess]

Fuck, I have to pay 420/mo for KINDERGARDEN. YOU FUCKS GET ENOUGH IN PROPERTY TAXES

For a public school?  How the hell does that happen?  I paid just a little more than that for Tommy's Kindergarten, but it was at a private school.

[derspiess]

Sounded like he needed to get one of your group alone and beat the shit out of 'em. That is how I rolled.

Actually, if anyone in the group needed to be put in his place it was him.  On a couple occasions I had to straighten him out & go upside his head.  But we usually got along fine.

[Ed Anger]

Fuck, I have to pay 420/mo for KINDERGARDEN. YOU FUCKS GET ENOUGH IN PROPERTY TAXES

For a public school?  How the hell does that happen?  I paid just a little more than that for Tommy's Kindergarten, but it was at a private school.

Kindergarten Programs
We have 2 optional Kindergarten Programs. Please see our building secretary for the Kindergarten Parent Handbook for further explanations
of the programs.
#1. All Day students attend 5 days a week. There is a monthly tuition $420.00.   Please call our office if you are interested.
#2. Every Other Day students attend all day on a daily rotation. GOLD attends Mondays, Thursdays, & assigned Wednesdays. PURPLE attends Tuesdays, Fridays, & assigned Wednesdays.

Screw that rotation crap.

[Valmy]

What kind of horrible crap is that?  Ohio is un-American.

[Ed Anger]

What kind of horrible crap is that?  Ohio is un-American.

I didn't read the parent handbook.

[crazy canuck]

Question grumbler: you claim that boys are 6 months behind girls developmentally.  Would it be a good idea to start a boy a year later then?  Not a theoretical question here, I have two boys.

If you can, you probably should.  As RH notes, boys who are born later in the year and aren't held back until they are 5 1/2 or older tend to do poorly compared to peers.  By far the best time to hold them back is before they start.

It is a decision I wish my parents had made.  I was born in late December and my parents were given the choice of keeping me back the year.  They opted to keep me in the cohort of the year of my birth.  Although I did ok in sports that extra year would have made a big difference - for me it was almost literally a full year.  I also struggled a lot in school up until university, partly because I spent too much time in the gym but also because I was always a step behind the maturity of my peers (which partially explained why I spent so much time in the gym).

[garbon]

My parents kept me with my cohorts and I can't think of any negatives that came as a result. Well maybe how I had the head of the NEA as my commencement speaker instead of Oprah.

[derspiess]

Our district doesn't even offer all-day Kindergarten.  You do either mornings or afternoons each day.

[CountDeMoney]

Our district doesn't even offer all-day Kindergarten.  You do either mornings or afternoons each day.

Freedom!

[derspiess]

It is a decision I wish my parents had made.  I was born in late December and my parents were given the choice of keeping me back the year.  They opted to keep me in the cohort of the year of my birth. 

I was born in late August and my parents were given the same choice.  Glad as hell they kept me where I was, because the kids a year behind my age group were all dipshits. 

[Maximus]

My parents actually put me in a year before I would have been eligible by the official date.

[grumbler]

My parents actually put me in a year before I would have been eligible by the official date.

And they've paid for their mistake...

[MadImmortalMan]

My mom held my younger brother back in K. We used to make fun of him for it but now he's an organic chemist. Maybe it was a good idea.

[Capetan Mihali]

We all eventually accepted it, but if he pissed someone off inside our group they were quick to remind him he "flunked Kindergarten".  Now if an outsider gave him shit over it, we'd circle the wagons and defend him.  That's just how we rolled.

There was a period in time (I'm thinking 6th/7th grade) where my own friend group gave me a lot of shit for the opposite reason, since I'd skipped 2nd grade and was a year younger.

In elementary school, I'd always got by with my peers -- had to develop social skills quick, like entertaining the bad kids with my great collection of swear words and obscene phrases (thanks Dad!). 

I rolled with the punches for a year or two in middle school, and then it was more or less faded, and high school was surprisingly mellow (again, mostly since I could be funny and wasn't too much of a goody-goody).