This is Partly Why I Do Not Like Public Schools, Or, I Hope You Have a Lot of Time
In California, we have something that is called "Transitional Kindergarten." This is an all day program created specifically for children who have late-year birthdays, such as my daughter who was born in November. Since they moved the minimum age of entry into Kindergarten back to being 5 before the beginning of the school year, they created TK for children who missed the cutoff, but could still benefit from an all day program to get them ready for Kinder. So, seeing as how my daughter has attended Special Day Class since the age of 3, I was not aware that she was a candidate for TK. When we held her IEP last March with all of the various staff that make up the IEP team, no one even mentioned TK. A couple of months ago, another parent asked me why my daughter was not in TK, at first I didn't really have a reply. Uh, because she didn't qualify? No, she said, they will assess each SDC pupil on a case by case basis if requested by the parent. Shit....