Late birthday transfer

[Anonymous]

Which school systems will allow December birthday children, who entered public kindergarten at age 4 (out-of-state) to continue in kindergarten as transfers or to enter first grade the following year after completing the out-of-state kindergarten? TIA!

[Anonymous]

In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

[Anonymous]

When are you coming? If you arrived right now, with the kindergarten year still going on, your child would be in kindergarten. Unless there's an issue, the child could likely go on to first grade.

I teach K in MCPS at a school with high mobility--students coming in and out, sometimes international. Talk to someone at your school and explain the situation. There is "a rule" that students who go to K and/or 1st elsewhere do still have to abide by the age requirements of MCPS. Yet it is not always followed--I had a student last year in your exact situation. She arrived in April (having gone to full day kindergarten out of state, turning 5 in December), had no difficulty with transition, was on grade level, and went directly on to 1st grade in the fall.

[Anonymous]

I had to deal with exactly this situation for entering 3rd grader last fall.

I spoke to MoCo schools authority - they said that for K, 1 and 2 they usually assess the situation - looking at report cards and its largely at the discretion of the individual Principal at each elementary school.
She said that after 2nd grade its pretty much a given that you just continue to the next grade unless there are major problems.

All the schools we looked at (4 ES schools) said it wasn't a problem at all. Their take was, if the kid has done 2nd grade why would they want to repeat it? (unless they needed to do so).

So speak to Principals and speak to the folks in the office in Rockville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When are you coming? If you arrived right now, with the kindergarten year still going on, your child would be in kindergarten. Unless there's an issue, the child could likely go on to first grade.

I teach K in MCPS at a school with high mobility--students coming in and out, sometimes international. Talk to someone at your school and explain the situation. There is "a rule" that students who go to K and/or 1st elsewhere do still have to abide by the age requirements of MCPS. Yet it is not always followed--I had a student last year in your exact situation. She arrived in April (having gone to full day kindergarten out of state, turning 5 in December), had no difficulty with transition, was on grade level, and went directly on to 1st grade in the fall.

How long ago was this? I've always been told that 2nd (i.e. completed K and 1) was the grade where birthdate no longer mattered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When are you coming? If you arrived right now, with the kindergarten year still going on, your child would be in kindergarten. Unless there's an issue, the child could likely go on to first grade.

I teach K in MCPS at a school with high mobility--students coming in and out, sometimes international. Talk to someone at your school and explain the situation. There is "a rule" that students who go to K and/or 1st elsewhere do still have to abide by the age requirements of MCPS. Yet it is not always followed--I had a student last year in your exact situation. She arrived in April (having gone to full day kindergarten out of state, turning 5 in December), had no difficulty with transition, was on grade level, and went directly on to 1st grade in the fall.

How long ago was this? I've always been told that 2nd (i.e. completed K and 1) was the grade where birthdate no longer mattered.

Last year. In a hypothetical situation, yes, "the rule" would be followed. But when you have an actual child whose had 8 months of kindergarten in another state, the school is not going to say "Go stay home until August and start K all over again." My guess would be that if she entered MCPS right now, OP's child would go to K and the teachers and parents would have a conversation about whether to repeat K due to age or to go on to first grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When are you coming? If you arrived right now, with the kindergarten year still going on, your child would be in kindergarten. Unless there's an issue, the child could likely go on to first grade.

I teach K in MCPS at a school with high mobility--students coming in and out, sometimes international. Talk to someone at your school and explain the situation. There is "a rule" that students who go to K and/or 1st elsewhere do still have to abide by the age requirements of MCPS. Yet it is not always followed--I had a student last year in your exact situation. She arrived in April (having gone to full day kindergarten out of state, turning 5 in December), had no difficulty with transition, was on grade level, and went directly on to 1st grade in the fall.

How long ago was this? I've always been told that 2nd (i.e. completed K and 1) was the grade where birthdate no longer mattered.

Last year. In a hypothetical situation, yes, "the rule" would be followed. But when you have an actual child whose had 8 months of kindergarten in another state, the school is not going to say "Go stay home until August and start K all over again." My guess would be that if she entered MCPS right now, OP's child would go to K and the teachers and parents would have a conversation about whether to repeat K due to age or to go on to first grade.

That would be "who's" not "whose." Changed my thought mid sentence and didn't catch that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

Absolutely not true. My daughter had twins transfer from NY and they were 4 starting K. Went to school one month in NY to purposely move them here in K. Their birthdays were in late November and have stayed in their grade each year.

Listen, the majority of us started K at age 4. It is ridiculous how old some of these K students are now with redshirting 6yr olds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

Absolutely not true. My daughter had twins transfer from NY and they were 4 starting K. Went to school one month in NY to purposely move them here in K. Their birthdays were in late November and have stayed in their grade each year.

Listen, the majority of us started K at age 4. It is ridiculous how old some of these K students are now with redshirting 6yr olds.

Listen, you have no way of knowing if that's true. If students start at four because their school systems go by calendar year rather than school year, only 1/3 of the birthday months start at age four.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

Absolutely not true. My daughter had twins transfer from NY and they were 4 starting K. Went to school one month in NY to purposely move them here in K. Their birthdays were in late November and have stayed in their grade each year.

Listen, the majority of us started K at age 4. It is ridiculous how old some of these K students are now with redshirting 6yr olds.

This is not typical practice..doesn't mean it never happens..but the principal made an exception to MCPS practices in that case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

Absolutely not true. My daughter had twins transfer from NY and they were 4 starting K. Went to school one month in NY to purposely move them here in K. Their birthdays were in late November and have stayed in their grade each year.

Listen, the majority of us started K at age 4. It is ridiculous how old some of these K students are now with redshirting 6yr olds.

Listen, you have no way of knowing if that's true. If students start at four because their school systems go by calendar year rather than school year, only 1/3 of the birthday months start at age four.

At least now, you can only do that if your child passed the early entrance to K exam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

No this isn't true at all. Maybe you're going on old practices - unless you can send us a link which states it?

[Anonymous]

We have a few kids transfer each year after K and some of them come from out of state and were born after the Sept. 1 cut off and some of them come from privates that allowed them to do K despite being born after the cut off.
Our principal makes them test in to 1st or else they have to repeat K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In MD you have to complete K and 1st elsewhere to be able to go automatically into the grade. In other words, you would have to repeat K with a December bday.

No this isn't true at all. Maybe you're going on old practices - unless you can send us a link which states it?

Correct, it's not true.

If Your Child Has Previously Completed Kindergarten in a Public School

If a child has previously completed the kindergarten year in a public school kindergarten program, the child may be considered as a transfer, although the child's birthdate may not be aligned with the state's age requirements.


http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/dtecps/earlychildhood/early-entrance.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a few kids transfer each year after K and some of them come from out of state and were born after the Sept. 1 cut off and some of them come from privates that allowed them to do K despite being born after the cut off.
Our principal makes them test in to 1st or else they have to repeat K.

If my kid had done kindergarten in public school in a different state according to that state's cut-off, and then the MCPS principal made my kid either test in to first grade or repeat kindergarten, I would have very strong words for that principal.