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Old 12-08-2009, 02:57 PM
 
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Hi all,

next week we are relocating to Houston ...but i am facing one major problem...my son who is currently in Kindergarten is not getting admission in the Houston schools because they say he is underage...
My son will turn 5 in January and the schools want the KG students to turn 5 before 1st September...

This would mean waste of one whole academic year... nad next year when he will be 5 year and 9months he will start KG. Now he has completed 4 months of KG and is it fair to push him back to pre-KG.. Moreover, maybe after two years we will return to Canada then he will be behind his peers...

I am really concerned to have a gap in his school year. Please suggest is there any school that can make any exception.....
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Old 12-08-2009, 03:03 PM
 
Location: Clear Lake Area
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Many people have asked this here before, and I have yet to hear of a public school who has bent on the 5 by September 1st deadline. Not sure about private school options. All you can do with public is wait and put him in Kindergarten next September. If he's that far ahead of his peers, they'll recommend he skip a grade. If you go back to Canada in a couple of years, he'll be at most around 6 months older than the kids in his grade... not that big of a deal.

More important question, have you found a hockey league for him? What part of town will you be living in?
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Old 12-08-2009, 03:22 PM
 
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you can exchange him for an older one j/k
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Old 12-08-2009, 03:24 PM
 
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check with AWTY many international kids go there and there dates may coincide with other countries schools
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Old 12-08-2009, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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private schools they can go on to KG if they are ready. 5 in January is a year behind. You have kids turning 6 in KG in January.
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Old 12-08-2009, 03:42 PM
 
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look for a private school that has a bridge-type KG program.
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Old 12-08-2009, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Houston, Texas
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In public you have no other choice. They won't change the entrance age into Kindergarten for any reason. But honestly your son is going to be fine. He may know a little more academically but kindergarten is where he belongs socially. If he was allowed to enter 1st he'd he the youngest boy in class by 6 months! That's a big deal for little boys who take longer to mature. We have PGP for gifted kids in public kinder, so he should qualify & enjoy the enrichment.

Private schools might let you put him in 1st but there will likely be a bigger age gap problem. Lots of people in private hold their kids back a year in a bridge kinder (especially boys with maturity issuse) so your son could end up being 18 months younger than his peers in a private 1st grade. Not a great thing.
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Old 12-08-2009, 04:24 PM
 
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Default Texas is like this...

Other states go by the age that the child is for the calendar year, Texas has this weird requirement. Some people like their kids to be older, so they are more mature (as if that matters to a 5/6 year old :^), some like their kids to get in early.

I was an early kid, and spent the last year of high school doing nothing basically. The school I went to was on a CREDIT system, not the current SEMESTER system. You needed so many credits to pass, and I had all of mine early and was relegated to bogus activities just to keep me out of trouble. I got out a few months early though.

It did not seem to affect me, that I can tell. If the child is doing well and flourishing, I see no reason to hold a child back just because he/she is younger. Just my view.

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Old 12-08-2009, 05:00 PM
 
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"Gifted" kids. Don't get me started. 9 out of 10 parents think their kids are "gifted". Here is a good list of "Gifted" children in history....lets see if your kids compare. I'm just sayin!!!

Galileo
Truman Henry Stafford (could square 18 digit numbers at ten years old)
Picasso
Da Vinci
Bobby Fischer
Asad Ullah Qayyum, (by seven years old, was able to deliver speeches in 12 languages.)
Gregory R. Smith (entered college at 10 years old and was first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at 12 years old)
Yo-Yo-Ma
Kim Ung-Yong (attended university physics courses at four years old, and received a Ph.D in physics before 16 years old)
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Old 12-08-2009, 05:10 PM
 
Location: Charleston Sc and Western NC
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"Gifted" kids. Don't get me started. 9 out of 10 parents think their kids are "gifted". Here is a good list of "Gifted" children in history....lets see if your kids compare. I'm just sayin!!!

Galileo
Truman Henry Stafford (could square 18 digit numbers at ten years old)
Picasso
Da Vinci
Bobby Fischer
Asad Ullah Qayyum, (by seven years old, was able to deliver speeches in 12 languages.)
Gregory R. Smith (entered college at 10 years old and was first nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at 12 years old)
Yo-Yo-Ma
Kim Ung-Yong (attended university physics courses at four years old, and received a Ph.D in physics before 16 years old)
Isn't that the truth.

I know a few people with over 140, and they don't consider themselves gifted, nor did they ever have to study. They always say "brilliance starts at 150, but what do they know. "

Gifted is such a tag/brand name word for the Gen X'er kids.

My nephew is 135, never studies, straight A's. He's just really smart.
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