Not exactly the same situation, but our son has a summer birthday and our school district’s cut off was August 15, so we chose to start him a year late and have no regrets. As a former academic advisor and current university faculty member, the students I saw who arrived at orientation still 17 or at college having just turned 18 had a MUCH harder time in their first few semesters. My decision to start my son late was really based around that–I did not want him graduating high school at 17 and going off to college newly 18.
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