My son has a late October birthday and, at that time, we had a choice of putting him in kindergarten at age 4. His nursery school teacher urged us to wait a year, which we did and have no regrets. But the rules in California have changed and the cutoff is early September so today’s October birthday kids go to transitional kindergarten at age 4.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)