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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]14:11  WOW!  Your kid was a 4 year old kindergartner?

She's so smart!  [/quote]

I was a 4 year old kindergartener....what's the big deal about that?[/quote]

In this area (VA and MD) they no longer allow 4 year olds to start kindergarten in public school, except under very rare specific situations.

So being a 4 year old kindergartner is a novelty, and not the average.[/quote]

The kindergarten entry cutoff date in Virginia is September 30th, so of course there are 4-year-olds in K, unless the\y are red-shirted. A non-red-shirted September birthday is 7 at the start of third grade.[/quote]

Same in DC.  There will be several 4 year-olds in my daughters kindergarten class, basically all with birthdays before September 30.  This isn't a smart or not question, this is the age cut off.

I'm fairly certain I will be able to leave my child to run simple errands by 7.  We live in a condo, and she has no problem with us going to the trash room now that she is almost six.  She knows almost everyone on our hall and who could help in an emergency.  The only question I would have is about how to call 911.  We don't have a home line.  How do others deal with this as their kids get to that more Independant age, do you just buy them phones?[/quote]

So yes a few children will be 4 in K up until Sept 30, then they will be 5 for most of the rest of the year.  In first grade, they will be 5 at first, then 6. In second grade, they will be 6 at first, then 7.  So the pp with the 7 year old 3rd grader must have skipped a grade or something. It is certainly not ordinary to be 7 in 3rd grade.  My first grader is 7.[/quote]

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