What are FCPS redshirting polices for a September Birthday?

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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.

The county could make your kid start school in 1st grade and skip kindergarten

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Anonymous wrote:Gift of time. Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder. Nothing wrong with be one of the older fall babies in the class (October, November, December).

I sent my daughter ON TIME as a mid September birthday. She fits right in physically, academically and has a ton of friends socially. I can't even imagine it if she had been redshirted just because of this "gift of time" nonsense. She was ready.

And this is exactly why PARENTS should have the choice to give their kids the gift of time. Your child might be ON TIME (emphasis yours), but what if she was born two weeks later and missed the cut off? Would she be "late" because she was one of the oldest? Kids mature differently and it's the parent's decision.

That's not what you stated in your post...there is no such thing as a universal "Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder."

Just remember this:
Years ago I knew a single parent who sent her DD early. She was bright and the mom needed her to be in school. I saw the mom a few years later, and she said: "Why didn't anyone warn me about high school?" Her DD was struggling and there were problems. Was her youth the problem? I don't know, but the mom thought it was. Her friends were driving and she wasn't, etc. I think she was hanging socially with kids who were out of her league.

I know quite a few parents who were tickled their precocious four year olds did ok in kindergarten (back when it was half days and play-based) who bitterly regretted sending them when their 17 y/o was not ready emotionally for college. Brain development doesn’t care what grade you’re in.

I myself went to K at 4 and everything turned out fine. This whole narrative is overblown.

Except you obviously weren’t mature enough to retain information when common logical fallacies were taught.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

The county could make your kid start school in 1st grade and skip kindergarten

Let me know when that happens, LOL. This isn’t DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gift of time. Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder. Nothing wrong with be one of the older fall babies in the class (October, November, December).

I sent my daughter ON TIME as a mid September birthday. She fits right in physically, academically and has a ton of friends socially. I can't even imagine it if she had been redshirted just because of this "gift of time" nonsense. She was ready.

And this is exactly why PARENTS should have the choice to give their kids the gift of time. Your child might be ON TIME (emphasis yours), but what if she was born two weeks later and missed the cut off? Would she be "late" because she was one of the oldest? Kids mature differently and it's the parent's decision.

That's not what you stated in your post...there is no such thing as a universal "Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder."

Just remember this:
Years ago I knew a single parent who sent her DD early. She was bright and the mom needed her to be in school. I saw the mom a few years later, and she said: "Why didn't anyone warn me about high school?" Her DD was struggling and there were problems. Was her youth the problem? I don't know, but the mom thought it was. Her friends were driving and she wasn't, etc. I think she was hanging socially with kids who were out of her league.

I know quite a few parents who were tickled their precocious four year olds did ok in kindergarten (back when it was half days and play-based) who bitterly regretted sending them when their 17 y/o was not ready emotionally for college. Brain development doesn’t care what grade you’re in.

I myself went to K at 4 and everything turned out fine. This whole narrative is overblown.

Except you obviously weren’t mature enough to retain information when common logical fallacies were taught.

Nope, PP's love to paint this picture that it's always some disaster and I'm simply pointing out that's not universally true. There's little functional difference between kids 2 months apart, for example July girls and September girls. Nobody really batts an eye when a July girl is sent on time but when a September girl is sent on time, the mother must be an idiot. The whole discussion is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gift of time. Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder. Nothing wrong with be one of the older fall babies in the class (October, November, December).

I sent my daughter ON TIME as a mid September birthday. She fits right in physically, academically and has a ton of friends socially. I can't even imagine it if she had been redshirted just because of this "gift of time" nonsense. She was ready.

And this is exactly why PARENTS should have the choice to give their kids the gift of time. Your child might be ON TIME (emphasis yours), but what if she was born two weeks later and missed the cut off? Would she be "late" because she was one of the oldest? Kids mature differently and it's the parent's decision.

That's not what you stated in your post...there is no such thing as a universal "Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder."

Just remember this:
Years ago I knew a single parent who sent her DD early. She was bright and the mom needed her to be in school. I saw the mom a few years later, and she said: "Why didn't anyone warn me about high school?" Her DD was struggling and there were problems. Was her youth the problem? I don't know, but the mom thought it was. Her friends were driving and she wasn't, etc. I think she was hanging socially with kids who were out of her league.

I know quite a few parents who were tickled their precocious four year olds did ok in kindergarten (back when it was half days and play-based) who bitterly regretted sending them when their 17 y/o was not ready emotionally for college. Brain development doesn’t care what grade you’re in.

I myself went to K at 4 and everything turned out fine. This whole narrative is overblown.

Except you obviously weren’t mature enough to retain information when common logical fallacies were taught.

Nope, PP's love to paint this picture that it's always some disaster and I'm simply pointing out that's not universally true. There's little functional difference between kids 2 months apart, for example July girls and September girls. Nobody really batts an eye when a July girl is sent on time but when a September girl is sent on time, the mother must be an idiot. The whole discussion is ridiculous.

No one said the mother is an idiot anywhere on this thread. No one said it’s always a disaster. Many people regret or know people who regret sending “on time” (in quotes because there’s so much variation about what that means). It doesn’t mean they think you weren’t ready for kindergarten 40 years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gift of time. Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder. Nothing wrong with be one of the older fall babies in the class (October, November, December).

I sent my daughter ON TIME as a mid September birthday. She fits right in physically, academically and has a ton of friends socially. I can't even imagine it if she had been redshirted just because of this "gift of time" nonsense. She was ready.

And this is exactly why PARENTS should have the choice to give their kids the gift of time. Your child might be ON TIME (emphasis yours), but what if she was born two weeks later and missed the cut off? Would she be "late" because she was one of the oldest? Kids mature differently and it's the parent's decision.

That's not what you stated in your post...there is no such thing as a universal "Don’t send a 4 almost 5 year old to kinder."

Just remember this:
Years ago I knew a single parent who sent her DD early. She was bright and the mom needed her to be in school. I saw the mom a few years later, and she said: "Why didn't anyone warn me about high school?" Her DD was struggling and there were problems. Was her youth the problem? I don't know, but the mom thought it was. Her friends were driving and she wasn't, etc. I think she was hanging socially with kids who were out of her league.

I know quite a few parents who were tickled their precocious four year olds did ok in kindergarten (back when it was half days and play-based) who bitterly regretted sending them when their 17 y/o was not ready emotionally for college. Brain development doesn’t care what grade you’re in.

I myself went to K at 4 and everything turned out fine. This whole narrative is overblown.

Except you obviously weren’t mature enough to retain information when common logical fallacies were taught.

Nope, PP's love to paint this picture that it's always some disaster and I'm simply pointing out that's not universally true. There's little functional difference between kids 2 months apart, for example July girls and September girls. Nobody really batts an eye when a July girl is sent on time but when a September girl is sent on time, the mother must be an idiot. The whole discussion is ridiculous.

I don't think someone is wrong to send a child who qualifies to be there. Neither do I think it is wrong to wait.

I do think that when a preschool teacher recommends giving the child another year and when the K teacher recommends holding that child back after a year in K, that, just maybe, it might be a good idea. I know a child like this whose mother refused to do it because he was smart. He was smart but he was extremely immature and it did not work out particularly well.