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[quote=Anonymous]Everyone piling on OP needs to check themselves. The magic birthday cutoff used to be Dec. 31 not all that long ago, recently enough that there are students still in the DCPS system who enrolled before the change - and it still is in plenty of places, like New York City. It was moved up pretty recently because - can we be real about this? - raising the average age in each class a few years ago goosed test scores, making schools look like their students were getting smarter and better educated (as opposed to just, you know - older on average than they used to be, with the smartest and most advanced students most likely to be affected.) There's nothing magic about the new cutoff that makes it holy writ that should not be questioned.

Thanks to this change, my own kid is currently on track to be two full years older than I was when she graduates high school. And so far, it quite literally appears to be wasted time. He's already completed all the learning and social benchmarks for not only his currently assigned grade, but the next one as well. Yet by law, he can't even be considered for advancement for several more years - and DC has no G&T track, for reasons - meaning he's very likely to lose his current love of learning in several state-mandated years of mediocrity and boredom designed to drag him down to the average, since that's the only student the system is interested in accommodating.

The public school system doesn't seem to think the goal of supporting and retaining the small fraction of its brightest students to whom this situation applies should be anywhere at all on the priority list. Maybe you think that fact isn't your problem. I can assure you that, regardless of whether you think this description applies to your child, it most certainly is.[/quote]

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