https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:51:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745479 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 22:52:10 +0000 ALV91711 2745479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in AB Canada. Where we are you have to be 4 on March 1 to register for Kindergarten in September. </p> <p>DS missed that cut off this year by three weeks. He will be 5.5 when he starts. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745302 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:46:49 +0000 catlady 2745302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sept 1 here (MA). I go back and forth on this because my kids are Oct and Nov bdays, so they will be among the oldest, which definitely has benefits. However, LO1 is 3.5 and is already starting to read and write, but she isn't eligible to start K for 2.5 years, which seems insane to me. Luckily, we live in a city which offers a Jr K program, so she will be able to start that program in a little over a year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745299 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:43:53 +0000 mamabolt 2745299@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@StrawberryBee: Not too far! We're in Delco :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745295 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 12:36:47 +0000 StrawberryBee 2745295@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@katsupgirl: yes. Morning is 8:30 to 11:18 a.m. and afternoon is 12:12 to 3:00 p.m. according to an old schedule I found online.</p> <p>@mamabolt: we're probably close to each other! We're in NPSD. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745264 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:15:37 +0000 mamabolt 2745264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Philly suburbs, Sept 1. DD is a June baby and will be starting K in September as one of the younger in her class but I do think she is ready. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745240 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:52:11 +0000 MrsLonghorn 2745240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dallas Texas is September 1 (5 for kinder)<br /> All of the big private schools follow this too, to align with the public schools.</p> <p>Our daycare follows this cutoff pretty strictly, so that the kids are tracked into the right year from the beginning.<br /> DS is a September birthday, so he is entering 2's even though he will turn 3 immediately after school starts. He has a classmate who is still 1 (she turns 2 mid-July). At this age, there is a pretty huge difference between them, but I know the gap will narrow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745231 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:42:35 +0000 katsupgirl 2745231@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@StrawberryBee: is it 2 sessions for the half day, a morning one and an afternoon one? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745218 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:27:00 +0000 Jruess 2745218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in MO. Aug 1 cut off. My oldests bdays is Aug 1. We are hoping to send her to a charter school in our neighborhood. It's a lottery to get in. Their cut-off is sept 1 so we are going to try right after she turns 5. If she doesn't get in, we will likely try again the following year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745198 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 10:04:25 +0000 snowjewelz 2745198@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in a NY suburb area as well and our district is 12/31. Both my girls are Dec babies. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745140 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:58:09 +0000 cascademom 2745140@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our district (in a Chicago suburb) is September 1. I think most of Illinois is September 1. Our eldest will have his 5th birthday one week and start kindergarten the next. My husband had a similar experience. We think that our LO is ready for kindergarten, so him being the youngest isn't too much of a worry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745134 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:48:31 +0000 littlebug 2745134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our school district (in Central PA) is Sept 1. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745127 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:43:06 +0000 Mamatimes3 2745127@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Louisiana - September 30. I have a September baby and he started on time. I did worry but he's pretty mature for his age and he's done fine. </p> <p>When I was little, the cut off was December 31 - I preferred that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745123 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:37:47 +0000 kodybear 2745123@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in SoCal and the cutoff is sept 1 but kids can go to tk w sept-dec 2 birthdays. In my case I think the cutoff worked out. My daughter falls in the TK range and. I think it'll be good for her to be the oldest in her class, so she has some time to develop socially a bit more as she can be timid. I just wish it was a full day program. Ds has an August bday and I think that's good because he is very ready socially and academically to be with older kids. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745104 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:16:20 +0000 avivoca 2745104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mamaof2: Yes, this is the thing that bothers me the most about it too. Our cut-off used to be Oct. 1 and H has an Oct. 7 birthday, but they just moved it to Aug. 1 and now I definitely have to pay an extra year of DCP costs for both girls (public schools charge tuition for any children in K who are not 5 by the cutoff). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745103 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:13:37 +0000 SeptMomma12 2745103@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in northern NJ (on the NY border) and it's 10/1. But less than a mile away in NY it's 12/1. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff/page/2#post-2745097 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:02:59 +0000 Mamaof2 2745097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in PA and its 31 August - DS has a September birthday so he missed it. The biggest reason this bothered me was the additional year of DCP costs! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745095 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 08:02:00 +0000 looch 2745095@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Cut off is 12/31 and my son who has a 12/16 birthday was kept back a year.</p> <p>It's been nothing but great for him. Interestingly, in my state, K isn't required, kids must begin attending school at the age of 7.</p> <p>This thread is part of the reason why I think we should have a national cut off. I get the whole "leaving the power up to the states" mindset, but I think we'd be a lot better off if we standardized it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745088 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:52:55 +0000 Anagram 2745088@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in NJ, in a suburb of NYC, and our Pre-k cutoff (same as K) is Sept 30. I'm from Texas originally, where the cut off is 9-1, so it seems "late" to me, although NY is Dec., so we are "early" compared to them.</p> <p>In any case, I don't really care where the cut off is. My girls are July and August, so they will both start on time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745084 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:48:55 +0000 mediagirl 2745084@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>August 31st. Most private schools have December 31st cut-offs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745069 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:24:22 +0000 lamariniere 2745069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In our city it's Sept. 1 and you have to be 6, but our LO is in private school and it's December 31 (also have to be 6), so he was able to start a whole year earlier than if he had gone to the local public school (end of December birthday). I'm glad he didn't have to wait because he was ready when he started. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745067 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 07:08:59 +0000 Mrs D 2745067@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Michigan, the cutoff is Sept 1. DD misses it by 4 days but I think we'll get a waiver and have her start 4 days before she turns 5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745060 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 06:52:54 +0000 StrawberryBee 2745060@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>PA, the cutoff is August 31st (just changed from September 15th last year), and is different depending on which school district you're in. My oldest is an August baby, but I'm due with #2 on September 14th, so it stinks to have to pay $10-$12k in daycare costs for an additional year due to a few weeks (especially considering that depending on when I deliver, had the timing been different she may have made it in). There is no option to be given an exemption or test in. Of course I have no idea how baby #2 is going to be academically, but with E having been in daycare since she was 1, I can't imagine holding her back from K a full year if she had been born 3 weeks later. </p> <p>In addition, each school district decides whether they do full day or half day K, and currently where we are it's half day K. So we have to wait an extra year *and* still pay a big chunk of money for daycare for that K year. I personally think the half day K is a huge waste (they spend more time being transported around than they do actually at school, and don't get recess because of the shorter day). There are whispers the district is going to try to make the change to full day K :).</p> <p>Obviously baby #2 isn't even born yet, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it, and who knows what the future holds! It's just kind of in my peripheral vision right now. I know that there always has to be a cutoff, I just wish it wasn't so variable and that there were other options besides going to private K and testing into 1st grade. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745050 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 06:35:48 +0000 Foodnerd81 2745050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: I see why they have to do it that way, but that sucks for the kids in his boat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745047 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 06:32:05 +0000 ShootingStar 2745047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: Yeah, with full time we can't really step it up. The school says they can tailor it to be more challenging, so we'll see. I'm not sure how other preschools work, but in daycare (at least the ones I'm familiar with) there are separate rooms for "preschool" and "pre-k". And typically you move up through all the rooms, spending 1-1.25 years in each. But DS will spend 2 full years in the same room with the same teacher and the 2nd year a class full of kids younger than him. I'm just kind of worried about it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745038 Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:05:31 +0000 LindsayLou 2745038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Washington state here, and its September 1st. My kiddo has an end of august birthday, and I'm pregnant and due the very beginning of September. So my girls will either be just turned 5 the week before or just turned or about to turn 6 when they start kindergarten. I don't love either option. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745035 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:52:03 +0000 birdofafeather 2745035@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>CA, sept 1. DD1 has a January birthday and will fall where I did in school (also Jan birthday) but with more kiddos on the older side where I was one of the older kids when the cut off was dec 2 when I was growing up. DD2 will do TK as she's late Oct and then will be on the older side when she starts Kinder. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745026 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:56:12 +0000 jhd 2745026@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in TN and the cut off is August 15. LO has an April birthday and I'm not concerned. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745014 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:02:28 +0000 dolphin 2745014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Illinois. Sept 1. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745012 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:53:16 +0000 MommySLP 2745012@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: @katsupgirl: TK is optional and only for kids that are 5 between Sept 2-Dec 2. I think CA started it so parents wouldn't be upset when they moved the cutoff date. It's at the elementary schools and they have their own curriculum. The kids go to K the next year. We don't have free public pre-k here (unless you qualify for low income programs) so this is another option for the fall Birthday kids. Some families choose to leave their kids in private pre-k instead of sending them to TK. </p> <p>Here is some more info:<br /> <a href="http://www.tkcalifornia.org/about-tk/about-tk.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.tkcalifornia.org/about-tk/about-tk.html</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/school-cutoff#post-2745007 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:44:42 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2745007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Champagne: it sounds a lot like TK here. A lot of places don't have TK or Jr K but if it is an option then that's ideal. I like that. :) I really wish we put more into early education here but I guess that's a whole other can of worms! </p>