Holding children back = new trend

[Liz]

I'm not expecting DS to learn to read & write at 3 yr old kindy. He's there purely for social reasons.. we've never been involved in playgroup or anything, only socialised with friends and their families. I'm hoping he'll be reading before going to 'big school' but that will be from our teaching him.. not preschool.

I'll be relying a lot on the teachers' assessment of whether he's ready for school in 2011, as they see what he's like at preschool and I don't.

[Muppity]

I know a little boy who turned 5 in between Christmas and New Years last year and is the youngest in his kinder class. It is crazy! There are kids a full 18 months older than him - I really feel for the teachers. His parents say that if they had known they probably would have held him back - just because the other kids are just so much bigger.