Originally Posted by Anonymous
Not to disrupt such an informative back and forth on Looney's, but a serious question:

How prevalent is it for kids to start kindergarten as 6 year olds in Baltimore, Md-suburbs of DC, DC or NoVA? In other words, do boys with Summer and even Spring birthdays typically wait a year to start kindergarten in these areas?

I was talking with friends with kids in private school in a couple of larger Southern cities and was amazed when they said it would be (and has been for years) unusual for boy born in April to start kindergarten as a 5-year old in their cities? They said this was also somewhat true of the parents they knew with kids in public school.


I am guessing you are on the age based side of the new grad year based format in use now in the DMV. With the cost of daycare in the DMV you have to be someone with means to be able to decide to pay another full year of day care. So your summer birthday son can go into school at 6 years old. Yes it happens a lot and many lacrosse boys do 8th grade twice so they are 2 years older going into high school.