@motel6oceanside Yes, we could. This is what I have heard of happening more frequently. Parents of kids on the "younger" side of the class can opt to repeat the PreK-4 year, which often makes sense because it'll be a more solid foundation in the skills needed for Kindergarten, not to mention extra time to mature. The downside is that if you use your state funded hours, you can't use them twice and some preschools won't allow you to repeat their program, so you'd have to choose a different school for the second round.
I just feel like deciding now that he should repeat his current year is premature, especially when it is suggested from someone who I met for 5 minutes and who spent a grand total of 2.5 hours with my child. She said he behaved wonderfully, was listening, etc, but wasn't keeping up with the "academic" work they were doing. Which...was to be expected? He's 3 and spent the day with children an entire year ahead of him in school, some of whom repeated a year so they're the age of a typical Kindergartener.
I just fear if we decided NOW to have him repeat, we may come to regret it if the second round of PreK-3 is boring or repetitive and then we'll have made the decision to alter his entire educational track before he even turned 4. I am not sure what parent would decide so quickly to do that, but I guess a lot of parents are more eager to have their child be older than the others in the class.