The great redshirting swindle of 2020

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

This is typical for DCUMs anti-redshirt contingent, who are not very good with social skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

You don’t think preschools are trying to bank on insecure parents? I know far more parents this year than any other year who have said “Larla’s teacher doesn’t think she’s ready for kindergarten anyway....” than I have ever heard before.

Why do you think I have consulted my preschool at all in trying to decide whether to redshirt?

I know he is ready and, absent the pandemic, he would be going, even though he is a young, small boy. The only question is the pandemic and I don’t think the preschool has any particular insight on that.

[Anonymous]

That's a tough one. I imagine with all the red shirting, the class of 2034 will be much larger than 2033 with more competition for private school spots, sports, college etc.

[Anonymous]

I didn't think that any open childcare agency was having difficulty filling spaces at this point. I can see that it would sound like a swindle if the space was a virtual one as opposed to in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

This is typical for DCUMs anti-redshirt contingent, who are not very good with social skills.

No, I’m just calling it like I see it. I’m not pro-redshirting. I sent my boy with an August birthday on time. And, happen to have a rising kindergartner this year again - and I think it’s a horse of a different color this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's a tough one. I imagine with all the red shirting, the class of 2034 will be much larger than 2033 with more competition for private school spots, sports, college etc.

I wouldn’t necessarily count on that if/when 2021-2022 is also messed up. Might end up being about average sized if lots of parents redshirt those kids too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

This is typical for DCUMs anti-redshirt contingent, who are not very good with social skills.

No, I’m just calling it like I see it. I’m not pro-redshirting. I sent my boy with an August birthday on time. And, happen to have a rising kindergartner this year again - and I think it’s a horse of a different color this year.

PP - sorry I misunderstood your comment to me. I realize what you were saying now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

Right? People lose their dang mind about redshirting. Make decisions for your own kids and let other people make decisions for theirs. If I had a rising kindergartner who has a summer birthday you bet your booty I’ll be letting them spend another year in preschool. Kindergartners just can’t learn via zoom.

"People" in general don't lose their mind about redshirting. Most normal, well-adjusted people don't care. But DCUM is full of nutcase parents who assemble birthdate spreadsheets and badger their poor children for competitive information about their classmates. These are the people who lose their minds about redshirting.

I have come to the conclusion that if someone on DCUM has strong feelings about redshirting, that's code for "unbalanced," and I don't have a redshirted kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s about childcare. If there was somewhere else to leave their 5 year old all day they would.

This. Particularly if my rising K kid had a younger sibling. It’s all about childcare + distance learning is not a good fit for kindergarteners.

[Anonymous]

Sending my rising kinder who we were planning to put in fcps to the k program at his preschool - will be a more consistent environment and then start 1st at fcps

[Anonymous]

Genuine question:

Why do you care what others do?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's a tough one. I imagine with all the red shirting, the class of 2034 will be much larger than 2033 with more competition for private school spots, sports, college etc.

While I totally get redshirting right now, this is a very important point. My child is in an APS bubble year. K at her school had 6 her k year and nearby schools were similarly stretched. It's going to be very weird to be in K in 2021. So many kids.

[Anonymous]

As someone who redshirted a late summer birthday child with an invisible disability, I see you people justifying your decision to do the same thing for the good of your particular child and your particular family even though you would have judged me for doing the same pre-pandemic. And I wonder what that crow tastes like.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a dog in this fight, but certainly agree that redshirting this year is a very different analysis than before. But for those considering redshirting, are you concerned about just how huge the kindergarten class starting in 2021 will be (assuming some semblance of normal).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's a tough one. I imagine with all the red shirting, the class of 2034 will be much larger than 2033 with more competition for private school spots, sports, college etc.

While I totally get redshirting right now, this is a very important point. My child is in an APS bubble year. K at her school had 6 her k year and nearby schools were similarly stretched. It's going to be very weird to be in K in 2021. So many kids.

I hadn't seen your comment and just posted something similar. I wonder if this will incentivize schools to accept at least a portion of these kids as first graders without having completed K.