Kids are getting lost boarding the wrong school bus home. Parents want answers
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Anyone who turns 4 by December 31st is eligible for kindergarten. Been that way for a long time.
In places with a 2-year kindergarten that is the case, most places in Canada don't do "jr. Kindergarten" so kids start a year later. Just like how Ontario used to do Grade 13, and nowhere else in Canada did.
Some places have Jr and Sr Kindergarten, so kids go a year earlier in those places.