Disadvantaged families who don’t own the means to delay child’s entry into education will be hit – but there is no easy solutionThe Department for Educations change to the school calendar for summer-born children is a fascinating example of a policy that attempts to solve a problem by literally putting the clock back, making April into the modern September.
In this case the DfE’s pending decision to let parents decide which year a child born between April and August enters school effectively introduces a modern starting date for full-time education in England. In doing so it solves one problem – the relative underperformance of summer-born children in GCSE exams – and substitutes modern ones.
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Source: theguardian.com