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Kindergarten is actually optional in a lot of places....you'd be surprised. The law usually says something about the age a chiild must be in school, not what grade they must enter. I've never heard of a place with no access to kindergarten though. That does seem odd. My parents are in their late 80s and from different states and I'm pretty sure they went to kindy. My sister is 65 and went to kindy.
In my day, lots of parents would hold BOYS back a year (I didn't learn this until I saw a roster with everybody's DOB on it in high school--back then we never suspected that knowing somebody's DOB could be used for nefarious purposes, and they were printed in the school directory. I couldn't believe how many guys in the year behind me were older than I was (I have a Sept birthday). I was quite shocked at how many boys were a year older than they "needed" to be, and AFAIK they weren't held back. I believe some parents would rather their son be one of the "bigger boys" in a class than the be one of the younger and possibly picked-on? Also, I wonder if they think about HS sports and the fact that their sons will often be 19 in 12th grade playing against 17-18 YOs?
It never seemed to be the issue with girls (though this was the dark ages). Other than getting driver's licenses earlier/later, another issue that being markedly younger than one's classmates could bring up is puberty. Do girls get teased when they aren't wearing bras or having their period yet? I think gym classes no longer shower together, so a lot of the body differences are easier hidden now than they were when most of us were coming up.
So, it's kind of a crap shoot to know at age 4-5 how your kid is going to mature both physically and socially. It may be best to just follow the deadlines, and if they aqre way advanced for their class, they can skip a grade later (or is that rarer than it used to be, too?)
I'm a September birthday too, and I wound up entering college at 17 (at least for a few weeks) and it wasn't much of a problem for me other than I wasn't even shaving yet. Then again, I wasn't shaving throughout my teens so it would haven't mattered in terms of physical "maturity" if I was held back. When I was in Kindergarten in California, I think that the cut-off date was Oct. 31st. If I had been held back, I still would have only been 18 for most of my senior year, not 19. I am not sure how you are arriving at that age for kids like us who were sometimes selectively held back.
Kindergarten is actually optional in a lot of places....you'd be surprised. The law usually says something about the age a chiild must be in school, not what grade they must enter. I've never heard of a place with no access to kindergarten though. That does seem odd. My parents are in their late 80s and from different states and I'm pretty sure they went to kindy. My sister is 65 and went to kindy.
Exactly. In NC you have to be enrolled in school by age 7, but that doesn’t mean you have to start in Kindergarten. Some parents don’t start their kids in Kindergarten, either because they didn’t make the cut-off or they wanted to keep them home another year, and they enter the next year at 1st grade if they have been learning at home. They could feasibly enter at 2nd grade at age 7 if they are on level, although the school may require a placement test.
Yes... But wcpps isn't going to assign your kid to a class based in due date... But his/her actual birthdate. Due date is a rough guess at best.
In any case...
1) Congrats on your upcoming new addition!
2) don't worry about kg cut off dates for now... Lots of road to travel between butter and then.
Eta: our latest was due 9/9/20 but decided to come a few weeks earlier. Turns out.. It's not your or your ob timeline that rules the day
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Originally Posted by thenightwatchman
We have a due date of 8/31. That makes the WCPSS cut-off by 1 day right?
My son was due Sept 27 back in 2006 and I thought "Yay - he makes the Oct 16 cut off - but I think that's the year they changed it. I was super bummed at the time, but fast forward 15 years and he's about to start High School and he'll be one of the first to get his drivers license, and be a little more mature etc so it worked out for the best.
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