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A general term describing a child who is eligible to enter school on the basis of chronological age, measured from the birth date. With increasing use of developmental screening tests, some children who are age-eligible are barred from school, or their parents are advised not to enter them into kindergarten, if their developmental age is considered too low. They will, of course, enter school in any case when they reach compulsory school age, but they may be placed in special readiness classes or transition programs; some schools alternatively choose to enter the child with the normal class, some\u00ac times planning to hold back the child another year. On a few occasions, parents have successfully gone to court to have their age-eligible child admitted to kindergarten over the school\u2019s protest.<\/p>\n

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A general term describing a child who is eligible to enter school on the basis of chronological age, measured from the birth date. With increasing use of developmental screening tests, some children who are age-eligible are barred from school, or their parents are advised not to enter them into kindergarten, if their developmental age is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a"],"yoast_head":"\nAge-eligible - Definition of Age-eligible<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A general term describing a child who is eligible to enter school on the basis of chronological age, measured from the birth date. 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