Let’s just start with the fact that I think the whole concept of children needing to be “ready” for kindergarten is absurd. To say that a child is or is not ready for the first year of school suggests that it is somehow that child’s responsibility to prepare for school. And the concept of “preparing for school” seems to lead, all too quickly, to things like worksheets for 3-year olds, and homework for 4-year olds, and expensive “kindergarten prep” courses, and all kinds of other silliness. To me, “ready for school” means, and should ONLY mean that the child in question is: well-fed, well-rested, adequately dressed. Any 5 year old (or, in the case of my province and our March 1st cutoff date, any 4.5 year old) for whom those things are true is Ready for School. If those things are NOT true, well, I think and hope we are all clear that it does not represent any failing on the part of the child.

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