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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm forced to hold DD back - her birthday is 10/15 and stupid ass FCPS won't let her test into kindergarten 2 weeks before she turns 5.  [b]Nope, let's waste an entire year and do NOTHING (with regard to her as she has to sit home for a whole year whereas in MOCO she'd be in K).[/b]  Even if she reads, writes, adds, subtracts, they DON'T GIVE A F.

FCPS elementary school bureaucrats are the laziest bunch in the DC area I swear.  God forbid they had to actually work a FULL 5-day workweek.  God forbid they actually had to put some kind of effort into testing students to see if they are ready to enter kindergarten a couple weeks before their 5th birthday.[/quote]

PP, there has be some cutoff, right? There will always be an issue whether the cut off is 9/30 or 12/31.

Are you more upset that DD will be at home with you? Or is it about learning. Because you could have enrolled her in a private pre-school and if she tested well, she could enroll in the kindergarten at age 4. Of course, pre-school is not free.  [/quote]

We will be exploring that option.  I have heard of kids doing private kindergarten and then switching to public 1st grade in FCPS.  DD is only 22 months now (but reading already, but not like chapter books or anything).  So I am just thinking it would be a year of learning wasted sitting at home or playing in pre-K 1/2 days.  [/quote]

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