Was anyone here the youngest in their class? I am not sure if I should send my kid to school at 6 or ask for permission to do it at 5 already. My wife says boys mature later and it will be hard for him socially with older classmates.
>>33757172I think sending him later would be better, just a strangers opinion.
>>33757172Doesnt really make a big difference but 6 is better, then he is on one level with his classmates
>>33757172You can't get out of school fast enough. Go early and make sure you inform them they can take a GED at 16 and go to community college. High school is a waste of time where you are forced to learn useless shit and sit there with absolute niggers.
>>33757576OP here, I absolutely agree. But I also have to admit that soft (social/management/leadership) skills which typically are not graded at all, are the most important ones and you have to practice them in a bullying-free environment. The best solution would be a school where ALL kids start a year earlier but that does not exist.
>>33757901(You) here. I was born in the summer (younger for my class) You want to start your kid off retarded like they failed a grade? There will be bullying in all schools regardless. Yeah you can train to be a Bureaucracy raped wagie in school. Not for success.
>>33757172I was the youngest kid in kindergarten/pre-school. About halfway through the year the principal recommended I be taken out and re-enrolled the following year. By third grade I was causing lots of disturbances while also showing a few signs of intelligence and the proposed solution was to move me directly from third to fifth grade, i.e. back with my original class. In retrospect, I think this was a mistake for a number of reasons, but one of them being the age gap it created. The whole "big kid" thing is felt very strongly by kids, a difference of 6 months would feel like 5 years to an adult. Maybe he would be totally oblivious to it, but the possibility exists that he won't see himself as equal to his peers, while the advantage from graduating high school a year younger is relatively minute. If it were me, I would enroll him at 6.
>>33757172I was 2 years younger than me classmatesI never recovered from that, I always identified with people younger than me, currently I date girls half my age and all my friends are 10 years younger than me, I can't relate to people my age or older
>>33757576Are there international GED equivalents? I'm from Singapore
>>33757172My brother skipped a grade in elementary school and was thus 9-12 months younger than his classmates. It didn't bother him until college, when his friends could go out drinking at 18 and he couldn't join them
>>33760041That's funny; I started going to college on and off from 14 on and now I identify with people older than me. I'm 24 now but most of my friends are 30 to 40+, but I haven't dated ever. I wouldn't say school is the cause of that, but it definitely bolstered what was already there
>>33757172Kindergarten at 5 is best so he can get used to a school setting before elementary
>>33760237Try this? I typed in Singapore on a GED website.
>>33757172I was the youngest in my class and was very immature mentally and emotionally for other reasons. I would have benefitted from my brain being a year older. If your kid is chill that probably doesn't matter and he will graduate earlier which would be nice. So i think if he is well adjusted the young age will be of benefit, but if he's not the young age will be a detriment
