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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my child's CES (aka GT) program; there were 2 kids who were an entire year younger than everyone else, they had not only skipped a grade, they had also still gotten into the gifted program despite being a year younger.

You're weirdly fixating on this. But...which school lets a 4 year old November kid go into K? Maybe a 4 year old in late august who will be 5 in the beginning of September. But 4 in November? No way. I think this is fake. [/quote]

Ny has Jan-dec cutoff. In this area, it’s September, so November/December kids are already old. [/quote]

DC used to have an end December cutoff too, as well as other states. This was probably the case when the OP's son was young. Even now Virginia has Sept 30, while other states have Sept 1 or earlier, so you can get some weird age discrepancies between regions.

My kid was wedged between a Sept 1 private school cutoff and Sept 30 Virginia cutoff. He started at a private school according to their guidelines, but when he moved to Virginia public schools, it looked like he was red-shirted because kids the same age could be a year ahead.[/quote]

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