Are people going to be more likely to redshirt because of COVID?

[Anonymous]

I sure hope not. My son (b 2/2016) is due for K in 2021 and A) don't want his cohort to be huge b) don't want him to be one of the youngest even at 5.5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can parents redshirt/ hold back May 2015 to August 2015 born kids to start public k in Fall 2021? That is to have their kids repeat private pre-k or start private k or homeschool in Fall 2020 , and then join public k in Fall 2021? I did not know that you can do this.

In normal times, people only do this with August/September Children. Please don't do this with a May-July child. It's going to be very embarassing for your child when he's older and everyone realizes he's a full year to year and a half older.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We had always planned to send our late May boy to K next year. He is small and a bit immature, but there wasn't a real reason to hold him. But now I am having second thoughts.

It looks like he will lose the last few months of preschool and the K prep that went with that. We are trying to do stuff at home, but it just isn't the same. There is also a decent chance that fall classes will be interrupted, at least to a degree. If things are going to be messed up again in the fall, part of me would rather have him missing out on preschool, rather than K.

Anyone else considering this? Do you think there will be more people on the fence about redshirting who decided to do it?

NP- I am the OP of the June boy thread. This is just so tough for me because if people are holding back their May kids, if my June boy goes on to K as I had planned, he is so screwed. It just doesnt seem fair for these June kids at all. I totally get your predicament because Im in it as well, but I was under the impression that May kids did not get held back, and June was the month that was questionable. OP- are you hearing that many May kids are being held now??

Why on earth would you send your June boy to Kindergarten next fall? Why start their school experience off in this craziness? Seriously - why would you even consider doing that? I have a December child and I would gladly wait another year, but December is just too old. If I had a child April or younger, there is literally no way I would send them to start school next fall.

Dumbest advice ever.

[Anonymous]

We already redshirted our September boy this past year. We would have sent him if he had at least been 5 by school starting. No way I would hold back a child from June or earlier. And honestly, after another year home, we will likely have him put back in his “correct” grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can parents redshirt/ hold back May 2015 to August 2015 born kids to start public k in Fall 2021? That is to have their kids repeat private pre-k or start private k or homeschool in Fall 2020 , and thoen join public k in Fall 2021? I did not know that you can do this.

In normal times, people only do this with August/September Children. Please don't do this with a May-July child. It's going to be very embarassing for your child when he's older and everyone realizes he's a full year to year and a half older.

A) There will be plenty of other children like him (children who were redshirted in 2020-2021)

b) 2020 Pandemic provides an excellent excuse

c) The person you are responding to, can choose to send her kid straight to 1st grade next year and skip public K. It would be a zillion times better than send a 5y old to K in this mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can parents redshirt/ hold back May 2015 to August 2015 born kids to start public k in Fall 2021? That is to have their kids repeat private pre-k or start private k or homeschool in Fall 2020 , and thoen join public k in Fall 2021? I did not know that you can do this.

In normal times, people only do this with August/September Children. Please don't do this with a May-July child. It's going to be very embarassing for your child when he's older and everyone realizes he's a full year to year and a half older.

A) There will be plenty of other children like him (children who were redshirted in 2020-2021)

b) 2020 Pandemic provides an excellent excuse

c) The person you are responding to, can choose to send her kid straight to 1st grade next year and skip public K. It would be a zillion times better than send a 5y old to K in this mess.

So, that means families that redshirt their kids (turned 5 by sept 1, 2020) not to attend public k in a Fall 2020 can only send their kids to public 1st grade in Fall 2021? Unless their birthdays are in August or have developmental delay?

[Anonymous]

redshirting this year is literally the most shirt sighted thing I can imagine. Your kid will be placed in the most overcrowded, competitive class for the rest of their lives. Good luck getting into a good college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:redshirting this year is literally the most shirt sighted thing I can imagine. Your kid will be placed in the most overcrowded, competitive class for the rest of their lives. Good luck getting into a good college.

Agree. If i did I would do a homeschool K curriculum and place back in 1st grade next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Late May? That’s insanity! You want your kid to be 19 and just graduating high school? 18 year olds should be seniors, not 19 year olds. Which means he will be 20 in his first year of college! That’s nuts.

Am not sure why being 19 is nuts in high school? I had to "repeat" a grade when I came to the US at 9 and started 3rd grade. I had spent two years in a refugee camp previously. I was always 1 year ahead of my grade cohort and never felt slighted by being a year older than the rest of my peers in each grade, including college. Your assessment is nuts!

[Anonymous]

Do people who still think redshirting helps, is cool, live under a rock. Forget research, don’t they read anecdotal stuff. It may look like it helps for a bit but it doesn’t unless developmentally needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:redshirting this year is literally the most shirt sighted thing I can imagine. Your kid will be placed in the most overcrowded, competitive class for the rest of their lives. Good luck getting into a good college.

You’re assuming school will be back to normal in 2021 - I make no such assumptions.

[Anonymous]

You could keep your late May son in his preschool as a "red shirt" and then in May next year decide whether to send to 1st grade on time or to continue redshirting and send to kindergarten. This is always a choice.

There is no law on the books that says a child MUST go to kindergarten - you will just have the preschool program sign the paperwork to redshirt your child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:redshirting this year is literally the most shirt sighted thing I can imagine. Your kid will be placed in the most overcrowded, competitive class for the rest of their lives. Good luck getting into a good college.

You’re assuming school will be back to normal in 2021 - I make no such assumptions.

But if that's true then redshirting is even stupider. You might have to redshirt your child for years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:redshirting this year is literally the most shirt sighted thing I can imagine. Your kid will be placed in the most overcrowded, competitive class for the rest of their lives. Good luck getting into a good college.

You’re assuming school will be back to normal in 2021 - I make no such assumptions.

But if that's true then redshirting is even stupider. You might have to redshirt your child for years.

Not really. You redshirt your kid for this year as we did (August birthday). Private K programs are much easier to find, some churches even offer them and day cares do as well. We could easily enroll in a private K for the 2021-2022 school year. And the kids with borderline birthdays who would be going to school in August 2021 would also be redshirted. There’s also a lot of people who’s kids don’t have summer birthdays who are pulling out and homeschooling for a year vs. doing the disastrous virtual K. Then going to 1st grade (or 2nd, if schools are disrupted in 2021 and they homeschool for another year) at the normal time. Point is I think it will all even out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could keep your late May son in his preschool as a "red shirt" and then in May next year decide whether to send to 1st grade on time or to continue redshirting and send to kindergarten. This is always a choice.

There is no law on the books that says a child MUST go to kindergarten - you will just have the preschool program sign the paperwork to redshirt your child.

Are you the same person from all of the other threads about this? Because in many states, there is a law that they have to attend Kindergarten (barring a personal exception). The law in most states just says they don't have to be 5 when they start (but must start school by 6).