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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she is 6, turning 7 in November then she'll be up to 15 months younger than some of her DC classmates.  The cut off is Sept 30th here but our experience in a good (JKLM) public is that most of the Septembers and many Augusts are held.  So your child would be 15 months younger than the August birthdays who were held and 14 months younger than the Septembers.  We have a September birthday child who we held and across the grade at our school (100 kids) I'd say that 70% of Septembers were held and 25% of Augusts.  So you are talking about very few kids over-all.  So your child will definitely be the youngest but there will only be a 15 month spread.

The DC privates are a different scene all together and your child might be up to 20 months younger than kids who were red shirted with late spring birthdays.  But in our DCPS experience, kids really aren't held back with early or mid summer birthdays and definitely not with spring birthdays.  [/quote]

I have an August 30 boy and I just always assumed we would have him to Pre-K twice to hold him back (he is 3 and in preschool now, so we would do one year at private PreK and then one year at public). This would make him 6 by the time K started (by a few days). I called DCPS and was surprised that they told me by law he must be in K by 5, so starting him at 6 was not an option. For posters who are saying August birthdays are held back, what does that mean? Are they starting late, or repeating K or 1st grade?

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God knows who is answering the phone when you talk to dcps. Could just be one of Marion Barry's cronies.[/quote]

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