Child to start TK but definitely Kindergarten ready - any experience with California schools
I realize there seems to be a crackdown on age and enrollment in California but wondering if anyone recently had a September birthday kid skip TK and jump to K. My daughter is a September birthday and behind the date cutoff for kindergarten this year. She's naturally very advanced academically, she can read around a first grade+ level and does addition and subtraction on her own. She's been in a mixed age group Montessori preschool since she was 2 and they mentioned I should push for her to go to Kindergarten this year because she's just a couple weeks behind the age cutoff (and tbh she's a bit of a troublemaker when she's got time to kill) The teacher insisted she almost never ever recommends that but in this case she's certain it would be best for this kid. There are plenty of kids who did their TK year at her preschool and she's top of class ahead of everyone older than her, she is also academically beyond all her friends who did public TK this year and socially at the same level with them. I do worry a bit about her starting TK with a bunch of 4 year olds and feeling totally and utterly bored as kids just a couple weeks older than her will be in K. I realize there are advantages towards being oldest in class I don't need anyone chiming in with those, just curious if anyone had an experience or success with a request to advance a kid out of TK.
Edit: everyone who's real gung ho about TK can leave their comments about this topic elsewhere. I LITERALLY DO NOT CARE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT TK OR HOW MUCH YOU OR YOUR CHILD LOVED IT OR WHAT VALUE YOU THINK "SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING" HAS. IT IS NOT WHAT I ASKED AND I SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED ABOVE NO COMMENTS ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF BEING OLDER. I UNDERSTAND THAT POV WHICH IS, AGAIN, AN OPINION.