Public kindergarten starting age to be increased

I am upset with this new law. I understand the idea of a child who will be four most of the school year, but in my daughters case she will be 5 one week after the cut off date. Is it fair for her to be held back an entire year over 1 week? Why should any child in this situation be held back? It demonstrates that not all situations are the same. I think there should be more guidlines to this law.

I complete disagree. I know there some kids there are not ready but there are a lot of kids that are ready and their mothers help them to be ready for next year. Like my daugther she is 4 and sould go to kindergarten next year, she already had a preschool year and they wanted to give her two years more on preschool. By the time she would be able to go to Kindergarten she is going to be bored because she know all the material. That is not fair for her and the other kids that are so ready to go to school next year. They should be an assement that they could take and see wich kids are ready and wich kids is not. And what happend with this kids in the transition they are going to be affected with this.

One - I understand Ms. Eason's belief that mothers (or fathers) should stay home with their child as long as possible. HOWEVER, in todays economy and society I think it is unrealistic to say that parents should stay home with their children until they are school age. It is just impossible for some families.

Two - I do believe that some children are not ready for kindergarten but I also believe there are some who are more than ready. When my children were starting school they were tested before entering a K4 program. Two of my children were ready and one was PAST the expectations and could have started regular K5 but was too young.

I do not agree with this bill and I feel the parents who are forced to pay additional child care cost but I think putting your child in school should be about getting an education, not saving money.

I completely disagree with this bill. My child should be starting school next year (before this bill) and now because one month he is going to be held back. I think in order for a kindergarten to start school he should be tasted frist and then see if he's ready or not, not just based on his age some childern are six months older and they maybe not ready acadmically

I completely disagree with this bill. My child should (before this bill) start school in 2009, however now my child is going to be held back another year. I feel he is being punished b/c of his birthdate. My child is much bigger than children his age and has been preparing for kidergarten since 2. I feel that him being held back will cause him harm rather than leading to any benefits. I am scared that he will either be picked on b/c of his size or intelligence level if he is held back.

It's amazing that someone sees this as a child care issue and not what is best for the education of our children. The purpose of school is for educating our population, not a place to drop your child off to be watched.

I agree that children should not start school before age 5 - this is soon enough. Children should be home with their mothers until then.

Also, I agree about raising the age for being able to have a drivers license. It has been my opinion for years that in order to receive a drivers license you should have to graduate from high school or be 21 years of age, which ever comes first. This would most of all save lives and at the same time help with the high school drop out rate.

Since we're doing that,isn't it about time we change the driving age from 16 to 17 or 18. A sixteen year old does not need to drive. Ride the school bus. Save gas. It would save gas, our insurance rates would stop going up from them having wrecks, and it would save many many lives. This isn't so much to ask for. The drinking age went up, the smoking age went up, the kindergarten age went up, why not driving? This hasn't been touched on in probably 40 or more years now.