Not knowing anyone who had gone through the early entrance experience, I had no idea of what to expect. These were encouraging words, but we had to first get through the process. So actually, there is a case to be made to be the youngest in class. In a nutshell, they are more motivated and work harder. This is due to younger kids being conditioned to persevere and used to expending more effort to keep up. But by college, students who are younger repeatedly outperform the older ones in any given year. Studies have indicated that initially being older does show a positive effect on test scores at the end of kindergarten, but by eighth grade it levels out. A paper published in 2013 by the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis found only 5 percent of all kindergarten-age children are intentionally held back a year.Īdditionally as I took a deeper dive on what seemed obvious - that the older a child starts Kindergarten, the better off they are throughout their school experience - that assumption evaporated too. The way some parents spoke about it, I thought the practice was highly common and highly advantageous.
I’ll admit I had to pause for a moment after learning about the trend of ‘redshirting’ kids for kindergarten, or not entering school until they are 6 or older.
We absolutely felt she was socially, emotionally and academically ready even though she’d perpetually be the youngest kid in her class. But my daughter only misses that cutoff by nine days, and kids with September and October birthdays can apply for early entrance to kindergarten. 31 to be eligible for standard enrollment. In the Seattle school district, kids have to be 5 years old by Aug. What I didn’t realize was the dilemma it presented five years later when we were deciding whether or not to enter her in kindergarten. 9, 2009, I knew her auspicious birth date was a boon for designing birth announcements and filling out customs forms.
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