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[quote=Anonymous][quote]WTF am I missing? A December bday will be one of the older ones.

I have September and April boys. I sure as h*ll wouldn't worry if they were December bdays. [/quote]

My best interpretation of OP's concern is that she thinks because her child has a December birthday, that means her child is being forced to start school "a year later" because kids born through Sept. 30th of whatever calendar year her kid was born in will have started school the year before.  I guess she (and others on this thread?) think that all kids born in the same calendar year should go to school together (even though the Sept. cutoff still constitutes a 12-month age span for kids in each grade).

OP seems concerned that because her kid is, in her view, being "kept back" from starting school with kids born through Sept. 30th of the same calendar year, her child is going to be more advanced than all the other kids in the class and therefore will be bored when she enters kindergarten.

However, by OP's logic, we would use a Dec. 31 cutoff, and then her kid would be the youngest in the class & I assume she'd have concerns about that as well.

The weirdest thing about this is that December is probably not too far from the middle of the age cohort in most cases.  Even assuming this kid's birthday is Dec 1 and not Dec 31, there are all the October & November kids turning 6 before this kid, and in most cases there will be several redshirted August & September birthdays too, sometimes even some Julys.  There will be kids in the class who are at least 3 months older, if not more, than this child.  So a December kid is never going to be the oldest kid in the class & certainly is not going to be advanced beyond all the other kids by virtue of age alone.

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