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help me out here....age for starting kindergarten
I am having a total senior moment re: starting Kindergarten in the state of MD. The child has to turn 5 before September 1st, correct?
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Re: help me out here....age for starting kindergarten
Correct - has to be 5 on the first day of school.
I think you can get a waiver/exception if your kid turns 5 before Oct. 15th or something.
Ella will turn 5 Dec. 10, 2013 (holy moley) but won't start kindergarten until Sept. 2014.
Yeah-ok-that is what I thought. My friend keeps confusing me though-she is saying 6. Whoa, that means S will be starting Kindergarten next year. Fall 2014. I seriously need to get the heck out of my house.
Ha, funny, I started kindergarten at 4 and went off to college at 17.....seems like so young.
Yes. B is off by a week. In order to get in early, there are forms to fill out and the county also tests to see how well they would do. According to B's Pre-K teacher, they need to be in the top 2% in order to go in early and then the child is kept an eye on for the first month. They are allowed to pull the child if they are not doing well. This is HoCo though. I'm not sure how the other counties work.
B's teacher said that she thinks he would do fine going in this coming September. She did say as well that boys born closer to the cutoff date may actually do better with holding off entrance as boys do mature in some thinking levels later than girls. However, she said that was just in her experience. I have had several other teacher friends say that it's better to hold off.
After all that blah, blah, blah from me, B will be entering kindergarten in fall 2014 when he will be almost 6.
me too - I remember my 18th bday at college. ... weird.
I'm happy to give E a little extra time, but its weird. ..
LOL! that will be be fun!
Same with A, she will be almost 6 when she starts school. I really need to think about pre-school.
We're a ways off, but even with petitioning to start early, L will miss the cutoff and be almost 6 when she starts. Readiness isn't something we can predict now, but if she were ready early, there is a workaround. Her daycare has kindergarten, and if she did that, then she'd be able to go into first grade as opposed to repeating kindergarten at public school. I think they do have a prek of sorts though if we don't go with that so she won't have to stay in 4's for 2 years.
Baby Girl #2 is on her way!
This was me. My son was due August 31st and then born a week late. That's what bothered me most about being overdue
It really depends on the county. So they just waive it if the child is within limits but our county tests the children.
You never know!! I was due 8/31 and my daughter came 3 weeks early! I was a little worried about the whole cut off thing but thankfully now it's a non issue though kindergarten is several years down the road for us.