An Edmonton father is calling on Edmonton’s Public School Board, which refused to keep his daughter in her Grade 1 class, saying she needs to go back to Kindergarten as she was born three days past the cut-off.
“It should be for the best interest of kids, and I think that’s lacking here,” said Zaahir Moloo, an Edmonton parent.
Moloo says his daughter has already completed Kindergarten twice. Once overseas and once at a private school here in Edmonton, but she may be forced to leave her Grade 1 class at public school and go back to Kindergarten for a third time, because her birthday is three days past the cut-off.
We got a call from the principal stating that, because of certain funding rules, they had to move her back to Kindergarten. So obviously, this would be her third time going thr