Why is redshirting so common around here?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Fixed that for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

I suspect that you think everyone who disagrees with you is nutty.

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Anonymous wrote:There are only two reasons to hold your child back:

(1) They are delayed or have special needs or

(2) You just don't want them to be the youngest.

So, which is it? Those are your only options.

#2. I would rather your kid be the youngest.

At least this PP admits it.

Of course. And obviously you should be fine with your kid being the youngest. B/c you were ok when it was my kid.

I'm fine with my kid being the youngest, even in a class of redshirted kids. As a PP says, the smartest kids aren't the ones who are held back. They're ready to go. Are you fine with being a person who thinks the rules should apply to everyone but you?

Yes I am!

Entitled parents raise entitled children. Good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

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Anonymous wrote:There are only two reasons to hold your child back:

(1) They are delayed or have special needs or

(2) You just don't want them to be the youngest.

So, which is it? Those are your only options.

#2. I would rather your kid be the youngest.

At least this PP admits it.

Of course. And obviously you should be fine with your kid being the youngest. B/c you were ok when it was my kid.

I'm fine with my kid being the youngest, even in a class of redshirted kids. As a PP says, the smartest kids aren't the ones who are held back. They're ready to go. Are you fine with being a person who thinks the rules should apply to everyone but you?

I don't get your point. Obviously if the rules didn't allow it, we wouldn't do it. But they do. Feel free to do it for your kids. Or rely on some scant evidence about who performs best in later years.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

Yes, my sweet little 6yo boy who can actually engage in a real conversation. Unlike PPs ("no - there are exactly 2 reasons blah blah!"). LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

Yes, my sweet little 6yo boy who can actually engage in a real conversation. Unlike PPs ("no - there are exactly 2 reasons blah blah!"). LOL.

What's a third reason? We haven't heard one yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

Yes, my sweet little 6yo boy who can actually engage in a real conversation. Unlike PPs ("no - there are exactly 2 reasons blah blah!"). LOL.

Your 6yo boy who should be in 1st grade.

As others have mentioned, all the brightest kids were kids who started school on time. DH was the youngest in his grade. He made it to med school.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't people generally graduate college at 21?? So the red-shirted kids will be 22, not 23??

My child will start K, at 6, so he will graduate at 23, not 22. The huge problem for us is the extra cost of health insurance. Our insurance stops college coverage at 22 so we have to pay for an extra year. There are many things impacted by changing the start age and holding your kids back.

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For the brightest kids it's never even a question.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

Yes, my sweet little 6yo boy who can actually engage in a real conversation. Unlike PPs ("no - there are exactly 2 reasons blah blah!"). LOL.

What's a third reason? We haven't heard one yet.

If you weren't open to hearing it the first time around, then I'm not really seeing the point of repeating myself. However, if you were seriously trying to understand other reasons why real people hold back their real kids then please go back and read the previous posts. Not everyone falls into your theoretical categories.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

Seriously! I've had more interesting conversations with my kindergartener!

Your kindergartener who should be in first?

Yes, my sweet little 6yo boy who can actually engage in a real conversation. Unlike PPs ("no - there are exactly 2 reasons blah blah!"). LOL.

What's a third reason? We haven't heard one yet.

If you weren't open to hearing it the first time around, then I'm not really seeing the point of repeating myself. However, if you were seriously trying to understand other reasons why real people hold back their real kids then please go back and read the previous posts. Not everyone falls into your theoretical categories.

Hahaha. Got it. (No third reason.)

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any rational anti-redshirting people? The ones posting here sound totally nutty.

I suspect that you think everyone who disagrees with you is nutty.

No, actually. I'd love to have a rational discussion of the implications of age in a classroom with an accurate description of the distribution of ages of children in the classrooms. I'd love to hear some anti-redshirts put forth cogent, calm arguments about why skewing the ages matters, if in fact such a skew statistically happens. I'd love to see numbers so I could get a sense as to whether redshirting has any significant statistical impact and if so, how. I'd love to see a clear-headed discussion of school structures and grades. Give me something coherent to work with, at least! But all I see here are frothy ramblings and broadly sweeping generalizations about 2+ year age differences and 19-year-old seniors.