05-07-2025
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When it was time for Avra Siegel's oldest son to start kindergarten, she didn't think he was ready. She had him repeat preschool, and he began kindergarten a year later, at age 6.
There was 'no problem, no questions asked,' she said about his school, Lafayette Elementary. So she did the same thing with her second son, whose birthday is Sept. 30.
