Redshirting? Will there be more this year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

DP. You are the tragically obsessed redshirting troll, so I get reasoning with you is not possible, but FYI, kids do just fine with this. My kid (not redshirted) was in a mixed age classroom and the kids all did great. There was a nearly three year difference in age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: My parents were obsessed with me being youngest and smartest too, like so many of the weirdo parents here.

That just shows that while your parents definitely wanted you to win things, they also wanted you to win them fairly. Winning a competition when you're a year older than everyone else is nothing to be proud of. It has to be an apples-to-apples comparison.

Look, weirdo troll, you need to stop. You are insane. Certifiable. Give it a rest and get some help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: My parents were obsessed with me being youngest and smartest too, like so many of the weirdo parents here.

That just shows that while your parents definitely wanted you to win things, they also wanted you to win them fairly. Winning a competition when you're a year older than everyone else is nothing to be proud of. It has to be an apples-to-apples comparison.

Look, weirdo troll, you need to stop. You are insane. Certifiable. Give it a rest and get some help.

Weirdo troll raises a good point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

DP. You are the tragically obsessed redshirting troll, so I get reasoning with you is not possible, but FYI, kids do just fine with this. My kid (not redshirted) was in a mixed age classroom and the kids all did great. There was a nearly three year difference in age.

Yeah, but in that sort of situation, the teachers recognize that ther is an age discrepancy. No going is going to hold a Kindergartener to the same standards as a 1st-grader. But most teachers aren't going to expect more from a 6-year-old Kindergartener than from a 5-year-old Kindergartener, even though they really should. That's what makes redshirting wrong.

[Anonymous]

Probably I’m not in the DC area but I am currently homeschooling my 5YO (Will turn 6 in November) and plan to send him to first grade in the fall. He can read and add and I think he would be bored to tears if he went to kindergarten in the fall (2021). I think every grade is going to be a mess with a wide range of skills/abilities by the time school is able to restart with some normalcy anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

His teachers recommended it. If other kids were not recommended to wait WTF would I care about them putting up with my son? My concern is my kid, other parents are supposed to be doing what's best for their kids. Why exactly would I go against the teacher's recommendation because of what some other family thinks about our decision?

[Anonymous]

It doesn’t seem like 2021-2022 is shaping up to be totally normal either. I am guessing more people redshirt again next year. Maybe the year after it will go back to normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It doesn’t seem like 2021-2022 is shaping up to be totally normal either. I am guessing more people redshirt again next year. Maybe the year after it will go back to normal.

I have an incoming kindergartener next year with a November birthday and there are lots of kids in his pre-K class who otherwise would have gone to kinder last year if it had been a normal year (May birthdays for example). It is what it is. Teachers will be struggling in all grades with the widening gaps made worse by the pandemic and distance learning. I worry more about those kids than what will be happening in kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

DP. You are the tragically obsessed redshirting troll, so I get reasoning with you is not possible, but FYI, kids do just fine with this. My kid (not redshirted) was in a mixed age classroom and the kids all did great. There was a nearly three year difference in age.

Yeah, but in that sort of situation, the teachers recognize that ther is an age discrepancy. No going is going to hold a Kindergartener to the same standards as a 1st-grader. But most teachers aren't going to expect more from a 6-year-old Kindergartener than from a 5-year-old Kindergartener, even though they really should. That's what makes redshirting wrong.

You really to calm down about this. Have you any idea how rare redshirting is? The only kids who are even considered for redshirting are those with fall birthdays, and even of those kids, only a tiny, TINY, minority are redshirted. We're talking less than .01 percent. So just relax.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to college at 17 and I was definitely too young.

If you felt too young, imagine how he must've felt? https://www.boredpanda.com/prodigy-child-high-school-daniel-liu/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

[Anonymous]

I think redshirting will still be as rare as ever. No pandemic can shrink people's moral compasses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

omg 13 months. the humanity!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

What specific personal harm was there to anyone in this scenario? You do you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.

Of course you didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.

What specific personal harm was there to anyone in this scenario? You do you.

Well, he probably won every class competition all throughout school, which means that whichever of his classmates deserved to didn't. He was probably valedictorian, which means that the salutatorian was wrongfully robbed of said title, and that whoever graduated 3rd in the class didn't even have a title at all, despite deserving to. He probably also went to one of HYP(or MIT), meaning that an age-appropriate candidate who deserved to go to one of those colleges was forced to forfeit a life-long dream.