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[quote=Anonymous]I am wondering if anyone has ever found themselves in this situation, and what you decided to do.

My son will be turning five on October 20th of this year. We know he's too late for K in Fairfax County, and we aren't questioning that.

For the last few years, he has been attending a very good bilingual preschool.  He has completed their pre-K year curriculum successfully, can read and write in English very well (and in one more language) but is otherwise a typical boy. I don't want him to repeat the pre-K year because it is obvious to me he will be bored out of his skull.  His attention span isn't the best, especially when he's bored, so I don't want to exacerbate this.  So I am looking to enroll him in a private K program that accepts children born after the cut-off date.

My question is whether I will be able to enroll him in first grade in our neighborhood school when he completes the kindergarten year in private. I understand that no exceptions are granted for early enrollment in public K, but I *think* principals have discretion to evaluate children who graduated from private K for placement into first grade, even if their birthday falls after the cut-off date.   Mind you, if after the private K year it becomes obvious that he isn't ready for 1st grade, I have no problem placing him in public K. I want him challenged but not miserable. But I want to have an option of placing him in first grade if he happens to be ready for it.

Does anyone have any experience with this? I figure I can't be the only parent with an October birthday boy. Who should I be contacting to figure that out?[/quote]

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