Enrollment Age Criteria
Frank Anderson
14 September 2001
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:35:20 -0400
From: Frank Anderson <fanderson@CIC-VALENCIA.ORG.VE>
Subject: Responses to outreach for cut-off dates
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you to the thirty-one schools who kindly responded to the outreach for the cut off date information re: to the admission of lower primary students. Subsequent please locate a composite of the results.
Dates _%_
April 1 3.22% (1)
August 31 3.22% (1)
September 1 45.2% (14)
September 15 3.22% (1)
September 30 16.12% (5)
October 1 12.90% (4)
October 15 3.22% (1)
October 31 3.22% (1)
December 31 6.45% (2)
Generic Comments:
a) Some exceptions are made if a child passed the grade showing
proper records of it, birthday is really close and reviewing progress of
child in each report card, or if child is within 2 weeks of the deadline and
has completed a
Our special thoughts are directed to you and your colleagues during
these extraordinary and difficult circumstances.
Warmest regards,
Frank Anderson, Director
Colegio Internacional de Carabobo
From: Headmasters List at International Schools Sent: Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2001
To: HEAD-NET@TC.UMN.EDU Subject: admissions age
Dear Netters:
We have moved our admissions criteria so that students must be of a proper age by August 1 for an August 15th school start. We are now considering moving this to a November 1 birthdate cutoff. Any opinions or sensible reasoning on why November would be preferable to--or not preferable to--an August 1 cutoff?
Thanks for your input. Sincerely, Paul Poore
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:40:29 +0100
From: Stephen Middlebrook <stephen.middlebrook@BPIS.DE>
Subject: Re: admissions age
Hello from
I don't think there is a magic age. If you look through the 50 states in
the
serves,
I was in a private school in
for boys than for girls, which makes good developmental sense in the early
childhood years. Around the world, it is even more varied. Some countries
(
4th or 5th birthday, so that you do not have a whole crowd of new kids all
starting on the first day of school. It also makes the child's entry into
school a very special occasion. Not a bad idea.
Some international schools try and split the difference by picking a date
somewhere in the middle of the range. Others say, let's have the youngest
BE the age of the grade by the first day of school, so that in Paul's case,
August 1 or 15 would be appropriate. But, then you get many parents with
kids slightly younger who would be able to start school in their home
countries lobbying for an exception.
My sense is that there must be some compelling reason to look at making the
date later, and that reason may be enough to make the decision. I have
always been a little way of taking in boys to pre-school who are still
three, not perfectly toilet-trained, and not ready for separation from their
parents.
No answers here, just some thoughts, but it is a very interesting issue.
Steve Middlebrook
PS We just confirmed yesterday that we will be moving our school site from
our forested, becastled,
lake side park north of
also becastled
lake side park close to the southern border of
closer to where most of our kids live!