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First day of transitional kindergarten12/20/2023 ![]() ![]() 10 would now be one of the first in his kindergarten class to turn six. And, ironically, the kids with fall birthdays, who used to be the youngest in any given kindergarten classroom (remember, they hadn’t even turned 5 by the first day of school) are now the oldest. Transitional kindergarten is not targeted to children who have special education requirements, developmental delays, challenging home lives, a home language other than English, or any other factor that might provide an educational justification for an extra year of school. “I was going to put him back in preschool, but why should I do that when we have a credentialed teacher who will work with him for an extra year? And, it’s free!” 2, are entitled to 14 years of free, taxpayer-funded education in California. That means that 25 percent of children, kids born between Sept. The change was to be implemented slowly, rolling the eligibility deadline back one month at a time until the 2014-15 school year, when it would hit Sept. The change, urged by kindergarten teachers across the state, was a way to address the increasingly academic nature of kindergarten and the developmental maturity it required as well as an attempt to conform with other states. “What is shocking to me is how little the discriminatory nature of this program has been discussed.” Vermont and a handful of other states leave the exact deadline to the determination of local districts.) Five states, Connecticut, New Jersey, Kentucky, Colorado and Maine, currently have post-September deadlines that run from Oct. The new rules called for children to have turned 5 before Sept. California had previously decided to change the eligibility guidelines for entering kindergarten. When transitional kindergarten was first introduced in schools in 2012, it was described as merely an extension of kindergarten, a “prequel,” if you will. Related: In landmark trial, both sides debate whether teacher protection laws fail students “I thought it was unfair that my friends got free pre-k and I didn’t even get a workbook,” said Aspen’s mother, Deborah Erickson, as she watched her daughter’s progress around the field. ![]()
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