Re: Your kid missing school year because of being born after Oct
My youngest brother was born in December and was allowed to enter with kids born in the same year, rather than having to wait a year. My parents now feel strongly that that was very hard on him. He's already the youngest in the household and spent his childhood trying to catch up with us two older ones. In school too then, some of his classmates were nearly a year ahead developmentally. At younger ages in particular, that year is very significant. I think he ended up being less confident in his own abilities -- even tho it was no fault of his own. He's probably the smartest of the three of us -- but it took him the longest to come into his own.