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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.  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).  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]

If you feel that strongly about it and can't face another year of preschool, why don't you send her to a private or move to Montgomery County?   FCPS has to set a cutoff and if they continually make exceptions what would the point of a cut-off be?  Particularly in an area where every parent thinks their kid is special and deserving of an exemption from the rules?  The operative word here is PUBLIC school.  If you don't like it, you can always try another option.

Otherwise, you might want to chill.  Your daughter is 4 and you have a long way to in dealing with school bureaucracies.  Best to save your energies for the battles that matter.[/quote]

Montgomery County is 9/1 as the cut off with testing.  Its not about kids being special.  Some kids thrive on academics and holding them back does more harm than good when most preschools are play based.  We have a child who was reading at 3 and very clearly ready and we had to hold him back.  We had to continue tutoring him which just put him further ahead.  [/quote]

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