commiecapybara [he/him, e/em/eir]

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Cake day: October 2nd, 2021

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  • The UK generally requires that a child must be enrolled in full-time education when they’re five years old, but schools will have prescribed dates for beginning school depending on when the child was born. So, for example, kids turning five between March and August are required to start school on the school commencement date that year, but those who turn five between September and February might have a later start date and additional help to get them caught up with the rest of the class.

    But where I grew up, before laws changed, they required all children to begin in the September before they turned five years old, regardless of what month during the year their birthday fell. So you’d sometimes get kids who literally only turned four years old a day before school commencement began in the same class as almost-five-year olds, and they needed a lot more attention than the older kids because they were basically still like 3 year olds. It was a mess and seems like the above article is basically what they were trying to avoid when they changed the laws in the first place shrug-outta-hecks