When does a child go to school at 6yrs old?

Before midnite this day every year, the child must be born to go to school at 6 years old.

A friend has been running around the education department frantically for the last half a year in an attempt to register her daughter for standard one when the new term starts on Monday.
Shivorn was born on 3rd January and that disqualifies her theoretically for enrolment into standard one in the new calendar year.
She related that if a child is born on the 1st and 2nd of January of each year then the child automatically goes to standard one at six years old...therefore will be tagged as the youngest child in class.
For children born after midnite today and the years of the same night to come, the child will have to go through a series of formal tests and interviews to be qualified to go to school at 6 years old. To be interviewed at aged 6? Quite a challenge. Only successful ones will have the green light.

So, if a child is born just after midnite in the wee hours of the 3rd of January, the child will be tagged the oldest in class. Many parents have this phobia of having their children being the oldest in class. I wonder why? Actually, a matured child will have the upper hand in class, won't he? Perhaps it's the feeling of missing out an earlier year in school that tugs most at the heart.

I am particularly affected today cos when I went to the bank today, my favourite banker was away waiting to give birth to her first child; then I remembered my dear nephew who is also going to be a daddy in these last few days. So, I cheekily messaged him and reminded him of the story above and guess what? He gave me this message:

'Thanks for the tip...but we have no control over the timing...everything is good in God's timing.'

Amen, wise one...young man.

Thus it is said in Ecclesiastes 3...

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under heaven;

a time to be born and a time to die...

So let's not play God; leave everything in His hands.