Originally Posted by Nikita
MsFriz - in CA the cutoff is Dec.2nd, but if a child has a birthday between Dec.2nd and sometime in March, they can join kindergarten once they turn 5. This is supposedly with the understanding that the child will do an additional year of kindergarten the next year, but it gets them into school and can be a jumping off point to discuss acceleration to first grade the next year. Any chance your state has a similar law and your daughter could join K after her December birthday?

Good luck!

Thanks for the tip, but I've given up on public school for now and have enrolled my son in a small private school with a later birthday cutoff. He's starting kindergarten next Wednesday. This way he'll always have a "skip" built in, even if he does end up in public school some day. I think it's great though that other people have been able to work the public system to get their kids where they need to be.