My husband started school early, he was 4 and a half. He said he didn't cope at all, and ended up repeating in grade 5 which he said was the best thing he ever did. And he went to a small country school. My husband is a very intelligent man, but he said he was a shy child and being so young a school didn't work for him.

My parents on the other hand could have sent me at 4 and a half but didn,t, I enjoyed being an older one in my school group, especially in high school and much fathered starting University having my license and being able to legally go to a pub.

Luckily my DH and I don't have to make this decision. Our son was must have know our feelings and was born on the 1st of may, one day after the cut off in VIC . And the rest of the boys fall well into the second half of the year.