Bill would require Illinois children to start school by age 5, threatening kindergarten redshirting

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1. My daughter's birthday is Sept 5th

Mine is Sept. 20th. I started 1st grade (no kindergarten) at 5. Technically my daughter could have started kindergarten at 5 by Sept. 15th). We held her back, and it was the right decision.

I will tell you it was a bummer to graduate at 17 when the drinking age was 18 in my state. All my friends were clubbing, while I was sitting at home (I did use a fake ID a couple of times though). At Purdue I turned 21 my final semester since I graduated early. I almost graduated college at 20. Both my daughters did graduate at 20 though.