Redshirting? Will there be more this year?

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Anonymous wrote:People are crazy about redshirting nowadays. My June 2016birthday daughter will be starting Kindergarten on time this year BECAUSE SHE'S READY, as are most children her age. I know a ton of families redshirted their spring-born children this year, so I know that she will be in school with children that have spring 2015 birthdays. We know a boy that has a May 2015 birthday and DEFINITELY should have been in Kindergarten this year, but his parents didn't want him to do virtual K and refuse to start him on time in first grade next year. It's absurd. He's going to turn SEVEN in Kindergarten. My seven year old is in 2nd grade right now.

I have several friends with May/June boys who feel like some of the issues their kids have had in school have been related to being on the young side.

That doesn't make sense. Kids born in May or June are on the older half. Remember, July 2nd is the middle day of a non-leap year and the first day on the later half of a leap year.

The cut-off for entering Kindergarten in this area varies, but it isn't December. In my district, if nobody redshirts or sends their kids early, then the October kids are the oldest, and the September kids are the youngest. Therefore both May and June children would be on the younger end.

But difference districts have different cut-offs. There's no universal cut-off. When different people have different ideas it's best to just go with the default idea. In this case, the default cut-off is 5 by December 31st.

Why is Dec 31 the default? Because its your particular area? For the vast majority of districts that's not the case.

It's the default because, in-case you didn't already know, that's the day before the new year starts. It was decided 2021 years ago that this date would be the cut-off point every year.

You are incredibly stupid. Shockingly so. Whatever education you had, it failed spectacularly.

Through years of reading DCUM, I realize DCUMs anti-redshirt brigade are not the sharpest crayons in the box, but you make your fellow anti-redshirters look like geniuses in comparison.

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Bumping--Really interested to hear the situation this year. We sent our mid-May 5yo DS to K on time. He is in private ST/OT with speech delays due to masking/hearing issues and we requested school services.

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What do you all think of the recent Atlantic article advocating for redshirting boys? I don't know much about this topic but have a late July toddler, and the article sounded convincing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/boys-delayed-entry-school-start-redshirting/671238/

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Anonymous wrote:Bumping--Really interested to hear the situation this year. We sent our mid-May 5yo DS to K on time. He is in private ST/OT with speech delays due to masking/hearing issues and we requested school services.

Stop blaming masks. That is not why your child has delays. They are five. They did not not mask early on nor at home Time to accept it just happened.
Not masking now so they should have caught up.