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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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.[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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

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