MCPS to ban redshirting?

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

So the problem is... what, exactly? Kids being 18 as HS seniors?

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

What exactly do you think will happen in math class and how on earth would a senior be in the same math class as a freshman? What are they of legal age to do? Vote? Sign their own absence notes? I just don’t get the concern and I have a summer birthday freshman. There is one senior in one class (PE) and that kid is friendly and nice, not some scary adult predator.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

So the problem is... what, exactly? Kids being 18 as HS seniors?

Unfortunately, in our society we there are many narrow windows of development where you have to meet certain "deadlines". For example, people around here take competitive swimming super seriously. If you don't have your kid in a competitive club when they are five or six there are very few slots available for them. Not to pick on swimming. Covid made this kind of transparent where you had certain activities that the kids didn't really get to do. The general view in the society isn't "Awe cutie, you didn't get in the pool for two years", but "What's wrong with you, why didn't you learn to swim in the special reserved Covid lanes where only one person could be in a lane at a time."

The point is here that there are many things like this where there is a narrow window. Basketball teams etc. If you make a club team in third grade it's easy and you're pretty much set, just keep going to the practices. Kids that try to get in later have a hard time, have to do development teams and what not. Possible just not the easy path. No we don't want to practice with your redshirt that is bigger and stronger but doesn't pay attention. Not fun.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

So the problem is... what, exactly? Kids being 18 as HS seniors?

Having a 13-14 year old with kids who are legally adults. Not healthy.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

So the problem is... what, exactly? Kids being 18 as HS seniors?

Unfortunately, in our society we there are many narrow windows of development where you have to meet certain "deadlines". For example, people around here take competitive swimming super seriously. If you don't have your kid in a competitive club when they are five or six there are very few slots available for them. Not to pick on swimming. Covid made this kind of transparent where you had certain activities that the kids didn't really get to do. The general view in the society isn't "Awe cutie, you didn't get in the pool for two years", but "What's wrong with you, why didn't you learn to swim in the special reserved Covid lanes where only one person could be in a lane at a time."

The point is here that there are many things like this where there is a narrow window. Basketball teams etc. If you make a club team in third grade it's easy and you're pretty much set, just keep going to the practices. Kids that try to get in later have a hard time, have to do development teams and what not. Possible just not the easy path. No we don't want to practice with your redshirt that is bigger and stronger but doesn't pay attention. Not fun.

Pools reopened for lessons and club swimming with distancing. You sound bitter. Swim is great as it goes by age.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

What exactly do you think will happen in math class and how on earth would a senior be in the same math class as a freshman? What are they of legal age to do? Vote? Sign their own absence notes? I just don’t get the concern and I have a summer birthday freshman. There is one senior in one class (PE) and that kid is friendly and nice, not some scary adult predator.

Seniors are unkind and expose the you get kids to lots of things ok for an 18 year old but not 14 year old. Seniors are talking precalc or calc with much younger students.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt it will happen because people will lose their minds over it. They might try to pass the policy, but it will never stick. In DC it wound up being a handful of parents throwing a fit. In MoCo it would be thousands of parents. And not even just parents who redshirt -- a lot of MoCo families believe redshirting should be permitted because they think it improves the maturity of K cohorts overall. In some elementary schools, it's a huge part of the culture of the school.

Lol keep telling yourself you're doing some kind of public service rather than seeking the best advantages for your own kid.

I don't think MCPS needs to ban anything but you sound ridiculous.

Np. I have a bunch of K teacher friends. They’re convinced that red shirting boys is the best for everyone. They sit better, better attention spans, more social maturity. The whole classroom benefits. The teachers have gone as far to say that girls should start at 5 and boys start at 6.

I have to agree. I feel like school is made for well behaved little girls and boys just flounder. I feel bad for little boys

Your "K teacher friends" sound like a bunch of sterotyping nitwits. Signed-mother of active girl

Any Kindergarten or preschool teacher will tell you that boys and girls tend to behave differently. There is individual variation of course, but you have to be a fool not to notice or admit that generally boys and girls exhibit different types of behavior.

Stop with the boy hate. The real issue is most preschool teachers don't have a background in education (some preschools require an education degree but its rare) and many teachers don't have good classroom control so instead of change things their anwser is to hold back as its easier on them. A K cannot predict the future.

This is not boy hate; anyone who has read academic studies on child development or has any experience with groups of kids knows these things. Can you beat it out of the boys or over medicate them to get them to comply? Sure, like in your country. But we understand that waiting a year does nothing to hamper anyone. See Finland.

Not trying to have my summer bday 13 year old DD in the same class as your 15 year old DS just because you're sexist.

The kids are often intermixed in HS, so the bigger issue is having a summer birthday with a 18-19 year old whose of legal age. Math, sciences, electives are all intermixed from freshman to seniors. My freshman had math, PE, and electives with seniors.

What exactly do you think will happen in math class and how on earth would a senior be in the same math class as a freshman? What are they of legal age to do? Vote? Sign their own absence notes? I just don’t get the concern and I have a summer birthday freshman. There is one senior in one class (PE) and that kid is friendly and nice, not some scary adult predator.

Seniors are unkind and expose the you get kids to lots of things ok for an 18 year old but not 14 year old. Seniors are talking precalc or calc with much younger students.

1) And this _doesn't_ happen in, say, middle school?

2) And you sent your kid to high school without them knowing about "things"?

3) And "things" are going to come up in math class?

4) And the minute my kid turns 18 he's going to change into a predator? If anything he'd have _more_ reason to stay away from younger kids.