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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be careful, there's a difference between having a kindergarten-age classroom and being considered a kindergarten as far as the legal requirement to send children age 5 and older to school. Check with your jurisdiction to see if sending your child to a daycare center or preschool with such a classroom qualifies. Some children age 5 and older who are going to preschool with a K classroom are still enrolled in their public school system and attending distance learning classes from their daycare center, in order to comply with that legal requirement.[/quote]

There's no requirement to attend kindergarten unless the kid is already 6 by the cutoff date.[/quote]

Kindergarten is mandatory in DC, MD and VA starting at the age of 5.

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DC: "(a) Every parent, guardian, or other person, who resides permanently or temporarily in the District during any school year and who has custody or control of a minor who has reached the age of 5 years or will become 5 years of age on or before September 30th of the current school year shall place the minor in regular attendance in an educational institution during the period of each year when the public schools of the District are in session. This obligation of the parent, guardian, or other person having custody extends until the minor reaches the age of 18 years. For the purpose of this section placement in summer school is not required."

MD: "Except as otherwise provided in this section, each child who resides in this State and is 5 years old or older and under 16 shall attend a public school regularly during the entire school year unless the child is otherwise receiving regular, thorough instruction during the school year in the studies usually taught in the public schools to children of the same age. "

VA: "Except as otherwise provided in this article, every parent, guardian, or other person in the Commonwealth having control or charge of any child who will have reached the fifth birthday on or before September 30 of any school year and who has not passed the eighteenth birthday shall, during the period of each year the public schools are in session and for the same number of days and hours per day as the public schools, cause such child to attend a public school or a private, denominational, or parochial school or have such child taught by a tutor or teacher of qualifications prescribed by the Board of Education and approved by the division superintendent, or provide for home instruction of such child as described in § 22.1-254.1."

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