And, it turns out -- although we didn't know it at the time -- during her time meeting with the school psych, she was administered the WPPSI and an achievement test.
Although the outcome was good in your instance, I can't believe that they administered an IQ test to your child without your permission! I would have been livid!
That aside
-- our local districts have an age by which a child must turn 5 to be in K and an age by which s/he must turn 6 to enter 1st. After that, they are much more flexible. So, the only way to get around the K or 1st cut-off that we've found are the following:
1) Have the child attend a private school for K
and 1st and then transfer in to public school as a 2nd grader the next year.
or
2) Have the child complete a year of
public K in a state or district with a later cut-off in which instance they overlook the "6 by x date" cut-off for first. A year of K in
private school does not work. They make the kids who did private K repeat K in the public school.
