What are FCPS redshirting polices for a September Birthday?

[Anonymous]

What are FCPS redshirting polices for a September Birthday? .

It will be for next school year if we do it.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by policies?

[Anonymous]

On the FCPS website:

"Virginia law states that parents must ensure a child attends school if he or she will be five years old on or before September 30. However, if — in your opinion as a parent — your child is not mentally, physically, or emotionally prepared to attend school, he or she may be exempted for that year. You will need to notify your local school if you do not want your child to attend kindergarten until the following year.

Once a student turns six, school attendance is mandatory. Grade placement (either kindergarten or first grade) will be determined at the time of enrollment with consideration for factors such as age, academic records, and school readiness."

So you could hold your kid back one year, but once he's 6, he's required to start.

[Anonymous]

I think you’re supposed to email the school’s registrar and let them know you’re delaying entrance to Kindergarten for a year according to Virginia law, but I don’t know that many people actually do that step unless their kid is already in FCPS’s system if they were getting preschool services. Then you just do the whole registration procedure when the child is 5.5 turning 6. K registration usually opens up in the spring sometime, there will usually be something about it on the school’s website or you can just email or call and ask.

[Anonymous]

You don’t have to do anything. Kindergarten is not mandatory in VA so you are not breaking a law by not sending your kid to school this year. If you decide to do this, next year, just go enroll in K a year late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don’t have to do anything. Kindergarten is not mandatory in VA so you are not breaking a law by not sending your kid to school this year. If you decide to do this, next year, just go enroll in K a year late.

I thought that, too. However, I just googled the Virginia law and you are supposed to notify the school of your decision to delay entry.

[Anonymous]

The policy is just that you have to send your child by age 6. You can send them to either K or 1st. Kindergarten is optional in VA. You can choose to skip it entirely, or you can send your 4 (about to turn 5), 5, or 6 year old.

The note above about letting the school know would only apply to students already in the school system. If you're a new family, just don't register for K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The policy is just that you have to send your child by age 6. You can send them to either K or 1st. Kindergarten is optional in VA. You can choose to skip it entirely, or you can send your 4 (about to turn 5), 5, or 6 year old.

The note above about letting the school know would only apply to students already in the school system. If you're a new family, just don't register for K.

No, state law says nothing about the notification requirement only applying to students already in the school system. From Code of Virginia § 22.1-254 [emphasis mine]:

Further, any child who will not have reached his sixth birthday on or before September 30 of each school year whose parent or guardian notifies the appropriate school board that he does not wish the child to attend school until the following year because the child, in the opinion of the parent or guardian, is not mentally, physically, or emotionally prepared to attend school, may delay the child's attendance for one year.

[Anonymous]

Don’t do anything. The school doesn’t know your child is there. Just register next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do anything. The school doesn’t know your child is there. Just register next year.

You're technically breaking the law by not notifying, but it's a law that nobody really cares about or enforces AFAIK, kinda like jaywalking on an empty street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do anything. The school doesn’t know your child is there. Just register next year.

You're technically breaking the law by not notifying, but it's a law that nobody really cares about or enforces AFAIK, kinda like jaywalking on an empty street.

If the county doesn't know your child exists, how could it possibly be breaking a law? I can't imagine what the school would even do with knowing there is a 5 year old that isn't coming to school. What if the family moves before the next fall? What if a family moves in to the boundaries with a 5 year old? This literally matters even less than jaywalking in an empty street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do anything. The school doesn’t know your child is there. Just register next year.

This is a JOKE thread.

[Anonymous]

This whole redshirting thing is nuts. It used to be that the cut off date was December 31st so every kid born in the same calendar year was in the same grade. Yes, there were obviously kids who were nearly a year older than others but if was far less common to have kids who were 15-18 months older in the same class. That age gap creates a lot of issues for both teachers and kids, especially in elementary school.
There are rumors that the county is looking into ending the practice but who knows if that's really true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole redshirting thing is nuts. It used to be that the cut off date was December 31st so every kid born in the same calendar year was in the same grade. Yes, there were obviously kids who were nearly a year older than others but if was far less common to have kids who were 15-18 months older in the same class. That age gap creates a lot of issues for both teachers and kids, especially in elementary school.
There are rumors that the county is looking into ending the practice but who knows if that's really true.

lol there are no rumors and even if there were, people would send to private K and then come back for 1st. Troll harder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t do anything. The school doesn’t know your child is there. Just register next year.

You're technically breaking the law by not notifying, but it's a law that nobody really cares about or enforces AFAIK, kinda like jaywalking on an empty street.

Breaking the law by not notifying them? Even though you don’t legally have to start school until 6?