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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]As a parent of a September birthday, the DCPS age cutoff being different from all the local private schools and Maryland (Sept 30 vs 1), makes this very tricky to navigate. If you anticipate wanting private for high school but want public before, your kid might be more than a year younger than their classmates since privates redshirt frequently.[/b]

DC is one of 5 “states” with a birthday cutoff after September 1. This is done as a social policy to save families a year of childcare (great!), but goes against prevailing educational guidance about learning readiness (not great!).[/quote]

Yes. Agreed that September birthdays are really difficult as DCPS is out of sync with all the privates, parochials, MCPS, FCPS, ACPS, etc.

That said, it doesn't seem that these kids in the article are September birthdays as I'm 100% sure these parents would have mentioned it if that was the case.[/quote]

I know for a fact that one of the three children is a September birthday. And that family moved to dc from moco about a year or so ago[/quote]

So . . . they moved here in time to have had their kid start kindergarten on time last fall? [/quote]

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