My three-year-old child is extremely bright and is already reading. Why do you think it is important to determine a childs developmental readiness prior to enrolling in the Junior Pre-Kindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, or first grade at FCDS?
Readiness for school is not necessarily the same thing as intellectual ability. Maturity (both social and emotional) is the most important factor in determining when children should begin school. Just because a child is gifted in reading (or in mathematics or art, for that matter), it doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is also emotionally and socially mature. At FCDS, we have been accepting young children into our school using their developmental ages (as opposed to their chronological ages) for the past 27 years. For example, we expect a child to be five years old developmentally by September 1 before he or she enters Kindergarten, six years old developmentally by September 1 before beginning first grade, and so on. Developmental age (also called behavioral age) simply means the age at which the child is behaving. We have found, as have many experts on determining developmental ages, that generally, girls function at their chronological ages developmentally, and boys are usually six m
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