The cutoff here is still Dec. 1. So Sara is still four until her birthday on Nov. 29, but she's in kindergarten. Which seems weird to me.
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
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Amy - Sep 15, 2008 5:06:57 pm PDT #6741 of 23273
Because books.
megan walker - Sep 15, 2008 5:12:53 pm PDT #6742 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I started kindergarten at 4.
quester - Sep 15, 2008 5:24:11 pm PDT #6743 of 23273
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Me, and my next younger sister (11 months younger, Irish twin) were both 4 as well.
Morgana - Sep 15, 2008 6:27:35 pm PDT #6744 of 23273
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber
I started kindergarten at 4.
Me too. And then started college at 17. My birthday's in October. I think when I started, my school's cutoff was the end of December.
kat perez - Sep 15, 2008 6:38:16 pm PDT #6745 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I started kindergarten at 4 and college at 17. I went to Catholic school and they didn't have a cutoff. Go, Pope!
I loved Christian on Bravo's PR marathon today. They had a commercial reminding folks that we were going to be able to vote for the fan favorite this season and I realized that I totally didn't have a fan favorite this season. Stella in a pinch, but that's totally by default. That makes me sad.
ChiKat - Sep 15, 2008 6:46:32 pm PDT #6746 of 23273
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
I thought that the cutoff for starting school was still December for most people in their 30s.
For us, the cutoff was Sept. 1.
Chikat! Mine is the 15th - I hadn't realized that our birthdays were so close.
We are twinkies!
(I'm the oldest in the family and the only one to major in art.)
Okay, only kinda. I'm the middle in my family. Major was in the fine arts, though.
Jessica - Sep 16, 2008 3:42:49 am PDT #6747 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
When I was growing up, the cutoff was December, but my school district allowed redshirting* so I wound up the youngest in my class but my sister (also a Nov birthday) was the oldest in hers.
*NOT the same as redshirting in genre TV. In this context it means holding your kid back a year if you feel they're not ready for kindergarten.
sumi - Sep 16, 2008 5:18:07 am PDT #6748 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!
I was ususally one of the older kids in my class. I know that I started kindgergarten when my next door neighbor did and she was five or six months younger than I was.
flea - Sep 16, 2008 5:29:32 am PDT #6749 of 23273
information libertarian
In NC the cutoff was Oct. 15, so Casper started Pre-K at 3! Here it's Sept. 1 and she barely made it (birthday is Aug. 28). If she'd been born Sept. 2 she'd have had to do pre-K over again, which is a weird thought - I'm glad it didn't come to that.
My youngest half-sister' birthday is Oct. 17, and she missed the cutoff and was the oldest in her class, but then did her senior year of high school basically at a local college and graduated from Smith in 3 years. She probably should have been put ahead in the first place, but it did save my father the Smith tuition!
E to bring it on topic for the thread: I would love to see a reality TV show set in a kindergarten class. Or just a webcam. I have NO IDEA what goes on all day.
DavidS - Sep 16, 2008 5:34:33 am PDT #6750 of 23273
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I would love to see a reality TV show set in a kindergarten class. Or just a webcam. I have NO IDEA what goes on all day.
You should see that French documentary about the year in a life of a one-room schoolhouse. It was really good and interesting and moving.