Almost 7 year old in kindergarten!!

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Did you send them to first grade after their birthdays? I read on DCUM that kindergarten is for five-year-olds.

I will say, as the parent of a 5 year old in kindergarten (who is by far the youngest child in the class and was 4 when she started in September), this thread is the first I've heard that kindergarten is not for 5 year olds but is actually for 6 year olds. Learn something new every day.

PP, every child in your child's class who has a birthday between October 1 and the last day of school will be a 6-year-old in kindergarten. This never occurred to you before?

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no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

Top PP, please post the birth year and birth month of every child in your class. The bottom PP evidently needs this information for some reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

K teacher poster here, killing time in the doctor's waiting room. I did not post the "who cares" response. I would have used proper punctuation, and I actually do know most of my students' birthdays, within the general time of year at least. The 7-year-old is unusual, I will say, but my point is that having this unusual circumstance does not necessarily mean terrible things for all the other students. In my 10+ years of teaching K, I can recall one other child who turned 7 during the year, and she was an international student with no prior school experience, so she was placed in K when she came. Also, I think her birthday was very late in the school year, in May or June. But you know what? It doesn't automatically affect the others negatively. There are many things that contribute to the dynamics of a class. Some years are heavy on one gender and light on the other. That can affect the class, but that doesn't mean we have to stop it from happening.

I have also in the past had many students who turned 5 right before or on the first day of school. The trend at my school is to send on time, but red-shirting, for whatever reason, is not unheard of. If people are really wanting to know specifics for my current class, the 7-year-old is my only "red-shirt." Some years I have one, some years I have zero, every now and then I have had two, but never more than two. As I said, I have several who turned 6 early in the year. I have (counting on my fingers here and relying on memory, not my birthday wall) I think 4 students with summer birthdays, boys and girls, who turned 5 then.

So, 17 students, 16 of which started at age 5, one started at age 6.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

K teacher poster here, killing time in the doctor's waiting room. I did not post the "who cares" response. I would have used proper punctuation, and I actually do know most of my students' birthdays, within the general time of year at least. The 7-year-old is unusual, I will say, but my point is that having this unusual circumstance does not necessarily mean terrible things for all the other students. In my 10+ years of teaching K, I can recall one other child who turned 7 during the year, and she was an international student with no prior school experience, so she was placed in K when she came. Also, I think her birthday was very late in the school year, in May or June. But you know what? It doesn't automatically affect the others negatively. There are many things that contribute to the dynamics of a class. Some years are heavy on one gender and light on the other. That can affect the class, but that doesn't mean we have to stop it from happening.

I have also in the past had many students who turned 5 right before or on the first day of school. The trend at my school is to send on time, but red-shirting, for whatever reason, is not unheard of. If people are really wanting to know specifics for my current class, the 7-year-old is my only "red-shirt." Some years I have one, some years I have zero, every now and then I have had two, but never more than two. As I said, I have several who turned 6 early in the year. I have (counting on my fingers here and relying on memory, not my birthday wall) I think 4 students with summer birthdays, boys and girls, who turned 5 then.

So, 17 students, 16 of which started at age 5, one started at age 6.

So in my child's K class in VA where there is no early admittance, 1/4 of the kids are redshirted. Do you think this would make a difference to the makeup of your classroom?

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

I am a new poster and didn't post about a child turning 7 in K. There are 27 kids in my child's K class and no way do I know when all their birthdays are, nor do I care. I mainly care about my own child and how she's doing.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

K teacher poster here, killing time in the doctor's waiting room. I did not post the "who cares" response. I would have used proper punctuation, and I actually do know most of my students' birthdays, within the general time of year at least. The 7-year-old is unusual, I will say, but my point is that having this unusual circumstance does not necessarily mean terrible things for all the other students. In my 10+ years of teaching K, I can recall one other child who turned 7 during the year, and she was an international student with no prior school experience, so she was placed in K when she came. Also, I think her birthday was very late in the school year, in May or June. But you know what? It doesn't automatically affect the others negatively. There are many things that contribute to the dynamics of a class. Some years are heavy on one gender and light on the other. That can affect the class, but that doesn't mean we have to stop it from happening.

I have also in the past had many students who turned 5 right before or on the first day of school. The trend at my school is to send on time, but red-shirting, for whatever reason, is not unheard of. If people are really wanting to know specifics for my current class, the 7-year-old is my only "red-shirt." Some years I have one, some years I have zero, every now and then I have had two, but never more than two. As I said, I have several who turned 6 early in the year. I have (counting on my fingers here and relying on memory, not my birthday wall) I think 4 students with summer birthdays, boys and girls, who turned 5 then.

So, 17 students, 16 of which started at age 5, one started at age 6.

NP here - I think this sounds more realistic than what people on this thread assume. (Only caveat I can think of is some privates around DC where its much more common.)

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

K teacher poster here, killing time in the doctor's waiting room. I did not post the "who cares" response. I would have used proper punctuation, and I actually do know most of my students' birthdays, within the general time of year at least. The 7-year-old is unusual, I will say, but my point is that having this unusual circumstance does not necessarily mean terrible things for all the other students. In my 10+ years of teaching K, I can recall one other child who turned 7 during the year, and she was an international student with no prior school experience, so she was placed in K when she came. Also, I think her birthday was very late in the school year, in May or June. But you know what? It doesn't automatically affect the others negatively. There are many things that contribute to the dynamics of a class. Some years are heavy on one gender and light on the other. That can affect the class, but that doesn't mean we have to stop it from happening.

I have also in the past had many students who turned 5 right before or on the first day of school. The trend at my school is to send on time, but red-shirting, for whatever reason, is not unheard of. If people are really wanting to know specifics for my current class, the 7-year-old is my only "red-shirt." Some years I have one, some years I have zero, every now and then I have had two, but never more than two. As I said, I have several who turned 6 early in the year. I have (counting on my fingers here and relying on memory, not my birthday wall) I think 4 students with summer birthdays, boys and girls, who turned 5 then.

So, 17 students, 16 of which started at age 5, one started at age 6.

So in my child's K class in VA where there is no early admittance, 1/4 of the kids are redshirted. Do you think this would make a difference to the makeup of your classroom?

I find it hard to believe a quarter are red-shirted because of the distribution of birthdays throughout the year and the fact that most redshirted kids are boys - but okay if you say so.

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So in my child's K class in VA where there is no early admittance, 1/4 of the kids are redshirted. Do you think this would make a difference to the makeup of your classroom?

How could the kindergarten-teacher PP possibly answer such a general question? It's basically asking, "If the class were different, how would the class be different?"

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

K teacher poster here, killing time in the doctor's waiting room. I did not post the "who cares" response. I would have used proper punctuation, and I actually do know most of my students' birthdays, within the general time of year at least. The 7-year-old is unusual, I will say, but my point is that having this unusual circumstance does not necessarily mean terrible things for all the other students. In my 10+ years of teaching K, I can recall one other child who turned 7 during the year, and she was an international student with no prior school experience, so she was placed in K when she came. Also, I think her birthday was very late in the school year, in May or June. But you know what? It doesn't automatically affect the others negatively. There are many things that contribute to the dynamics of a class. Some years are heavy on one gender and light on the other. That can affect the class, but that doesn't mean we have to stop it from happening.

I have also in the past had many students who turned 5 right before or on the first day of school. The trend at my school is to send on time, but red-shirting, for whatever reason, is not unheard of. If people are really wanting to know specifics for my current class, the 7-year-old is my only "red-shirt." Some years I have one, some years I have zero, every now and then I have had two, but never more than two. As I said, I have several who turned 6 early in the year. I have (counting on my fingers here and relying on memory, not my birthday wall) I think 4 students with summer birthdays, boys and girls, who turned 5 then.

So, 17 students, 16 of which started at age 5, one started at age 6.

So in my child's K class in VA where there is no early admittance, 1/4 of the kids are redshirted. Do you think this would make a difference to the makeup of your classroom?

I find it hard to believe a quarter are red-shirted because of the distribution of birthdays throughout the year and the fact that most redshirted kids are boys - but okay if you say so.

Birthdays are not distributed evenly, August and September are the most common/popular birth months. If most/all of those children are redshirted, which it sounds like is not the case for the PP K teacher but is the case for my DC's K class, then a disproportionate number of children are redshirted.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school. Everyone was totally cool with it! Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district. No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?

no idea - who cares.

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.

I am a new poster and didn't post about a child turning 7 in K. There are 27 kids in my child's K class and no way do I know when all their birthdays are, nor do I care. I mainly care about my own child and how she's doing.

NP here as well. My kid's class has 26 students- how in the world would I, as a parent, know what year the remaining 25 kids were born in?? My son (just turned 6 last week and went on time) has not reported that anyone's turned 7 yet. A friend's kid is super tall and has an Oct. birthday, so missed the cut-off here in FCPS. He's 5.5 and is already 52". I can only imagine the tongue clucking that'll happen when he starts K this fall.

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I find it hard to believe a quarter are red-shirted because of the distribution of birthdays throughout the year and the fact that most redshirted kids are boys - but okay if you say so.

New Poster. For what it's worth, my daughter attends a girls private school and more than one quarter of her class is red shirted. Based on conversations with other parents, redshirting is as common for girls in private schools as it is for boys. It wouldn't surprise me if redshirting is becoming more common for girls in public education as well.

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NP here as well. My kid's class has 26 students- how in the world would I, as a parent, know what year the remaining 25 kids were born in?? My son (just turned 6 last week and went on time) has not reported that anyone's turned 7 yet. A friend's kid is super tall and has an Oct. birthday, so missed the cut-off here in FCPS. He's 5.5 and is already 52". I can only imagine the tongue clucking that'll happen when he starts K this fall.

Nobody is asking a PARENT to discuss birthdays of every child. The questions about the entire class birthday/age distribution were directed a the K teacher who responded.

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NP here as well. My kid's class has 26 students- how in the world would I, as a parent, know what year the remaining 25 kids were born in?? My son (just turned 6 last week and went on time) has not reported that anyone's turned 7 yet. A friend's kid is super tall and has an Oct. birthday, so missed the cut-off here in FCPS. He's 5.5 and is already 52". I can only imagine the tongue clucking that'll happen when he starts K this fall.

Nobody is asking a PARENT to discuss birthdays of every child. The questions about the entire class birthday/age distribution were directed a the K teacher who responded.

oh plenty of people on this thread (as parents!) seem to know the birthdays of every child in the class. very curious.

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oh plenty of people on this thread (as parents!) seem to know the birthdays of every child in the class. very curious.

Why on earth is it curious? People have parties, you get to know families. Our class size caps at 24 and we only had 22 kids. Is it really that hard to believe that you'd be at least moderately, socially friendly with at least the majority of the 16 or 17 of those families who actually show up at events and get involved in stuff at the school?