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I don't see how that solves the issue, as it just moves (w/ optionality) the cutoff from 1st Sep back a few months. Meaning if everybody opted in, the spring k

I don't see how that solves the issue, as it just moves (w/ optionality) the cutoff from 1st Sep back a few months. Meaning if everybody opted in, the spring kids would become the youngest in class, instead of late summer kids. Edit - I see this helps ensure kids don't start Reception (ie, the equiv of Kindergarten in the US) too early. But it also shifts the point of youngest back a few months, so in later years, the kids born in spring season will be the least mature in class, and judged in this regard relative to the others.

ryandrake 11y ago
Exactly, it just changes which group of students are in the "too early" group. When I start a new job, they don't say, "Well, your job offer was made on 12-May, but our fiscal year starts in April, so you'll have no choice but to wait until 1-Apr to start work." The solution likely involves abandoning the model of childhood education consisting of fixed, arbitrarily-long cycles beginning on arbitrarily-chosen dates, progressing linearly. But when you leave it up to voters, abandoning "The Way Things Were Always Done" is about as impossible as curing cancer.