Redshirting August boy?

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Absolutely do it. Esp. given what you wrote.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

They struggle to justify it with the popular “my child was socially and emotionally immature.”

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason people shouldn’t redshirt? Theres just a bunch of ranting and raving in here with no substance.

The crazed anti-redshirters don’t like it. That’s literally all there is as far as reasons. This is why normal people in real life do not care about this whatsoever.

Normal people don’t redshirt and can write coherent sentences.

Sorry you can’t understand basic English. Maybe you should have been redshirted?

I think the unhinged one is the crazy loon who WAS redshirted by her parents. She's been a loser ever since and blames her parents that she never became anything in life. Because she was redshirted. I think most of this is a misguided attempt to convince other people to not let their kids end up like her. Otherwise I have no idea why someone would be so overly invested in what strangers decide to do with their kindergartners.

I think you are right. She trolls and haunts these threads and wildly lashes out at parents considering redshirting. It’s sad. (Didn’t redshirt.)

Much like yourself.

Uh, I’m not lashing out at parents considering redshirting. I think it’s fine. Not a big deal. My kids weren’t redshirted but are friends with kids who were. It doesn’t matter. So no, I am not wildly lashing out at parents considering redshirting.

If it doesn’t matter, then no one would do it.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason people shouldn’t redshirt? Theres just a bunch of ranting and raving in here with no substance.

The crazed anti-redshirters don’t like it. That’s literally all there is as far as reasons. This is why normal people in real life do not care about this whatsoever.

Normal people don’t redshirt and can write coherent sentences.

Sorry you can’t understand basic English. Maybe you should have been redshirted?

I think the unhinged one is the crazy loon who WAS redshirted by her parents. She's been a loser ever since and blames her parents that she never became anything in life. Because she was redshirted. I think most of this is a misguided attempt to convince other people to not let their kids end up like her. Otherwise I have no idea why someone would be so overly invested in what strangers decide to do with their kindergartners.

I think you are right. She trolls and haunts these threads and wildly lashes out at parents considering redshirting. It’s sad. (Didn’t redshirt.)

Much like yourself.

Uh, I’m not lashing out at parents considering redshirting. I think it’s fine. Not a big deal. My kids weren’t redshirted but are friends with kids who were. It doesn’t matter. So no, I am not wildly lashing out at parents considering redshirting.

If it doesn’t matter, then no one would do it.

But the argument is that it makes no difference it all evens out. So, why so angry?

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

There is a cut-off in New York and talk of some other districts considering it.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason people shouldn’t redshirt? Theres just a bunch of ranting and raving in here with no substance.

The crazed anti-redshirters don’t like it. That’s literally all there is as far as reasons. This is why normal people in real life do not care about this whatsoever.

Normal people don’t redshirt and can write coherent sentences.

Sorry you can’t understand basic English. Maybe you should have been redshirted?

I think the unhinged one is the crazy loon who WAS redshirted by her parents. She's been a loser ever since and blames her parents that she never became anything in life. Because she was redshirted. I think most of this is a misguided attempt to convince other people to not let their kids end up like her. Otherwise I have no idea why someone would be so overly invested in what strangers decide to do with their kindergartners.

I think you are right. She trolls and haunts these threads and wildly lashes out at parents considering redshirting. It’s sad. (Didn’t redshirt.)

Much like yourself.

Uh, I’m not lashing out at parents considering redshirting. I think it’s fine. Not a big deal. My kids weren’t redshirted but are friends with kids who were. It doesn’t matter. So no, I am not wildly lashing out at parents considering redshirting.

If it doesn’t matter, then no one would do it.

But the argument is that it makes no difference it all evens out. So, why so angry?

You have no knowledge or empathy for children who inadvertently take on the burden of parents inappropriately doing this. You’re lucky you don’t have this issue.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

Exactly... and then the ones justifying it as a great decision by saying how their kid is top of the class with test scores etc.... I would sure hope so considering how much older they are and the advantage you have artificially given them. It's fine though, it all catches up truly.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason people shouldn’t redshirt? Theres just a bunch of ranting and raving in here with no substance.

The crazed anti-redshirters don’t like it. That’s literally all there is as far as reasons. This is why normal people in real life do not care about this whatsoever.

Normal people don’t redshirt and can write coherent sentences.

Sorry you can’t understand basic English. Maybe you should have been redshirted?

I think the unhinged one is the crazy loon who WAS redshirted by her parents. She's been a loser ever since and blames her parents that she never became anything in life. Because she was redshirted. I think most of this is a misguided attempt to convince other people to not let their kids end up like her. Otherwise I have no idea why someone would be so overly invested in what strangers decide to do with their kindergartners.

I think you are right. She trolls and haunts these threads and wildly lashes out at parents considering redshirting. It’s sad. (Didn’t redshirt.)

Much like yourself.

Uh, I’m not lashing out at parents considering redshirting. I think it’s fine. Not a big deal. My kids weren’t redshirted but are friends with kids who were. It doesn’t matter. So no, I am not wildly lashing out at parents considering redshirting.

If it doesn’t matter, then no one would do it.

But the argument is that it makes no difference it all evens out. So, why so angry?

Read the post just up ahead of what someone wrote about how it does impact some children who don’t deserve to have this happen to them.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason people shouldn’t redshirt? Theres just a bunch of ranting and raving in here with no substance.

The crazed anti-redshirters don’t like it. That’s literally all there is as far as reasons. This is why normal people in real life do not care about this whatsoever.

Normal people don’t redshirt and can write coherent sentences.

Sorry you can’t understand basic English. Maybe you should have been redshirted?

I think the unhinged one is the crazy loon who WAS redshirted by her parents. She's been a loser ever since and blames her parents that she never became anything in life. Because she was redshirted. I think most of this is a misguided attempt to convince other people to not let their kids end up like her. Otherwise I have no idea why someone would be so overly invested in what strangers decide to do with their kindergartners.

I think you are right. She trolls and haunts these threads and wildly lashes out at parents considering redshirting. It’s sad. (Didn’t redshirt.)

Much like yourself.

Uh, I’m not lashing out at parents considering redshirting. I think it’s fine. Not a big deal. My kids weren’t redshirted but are friends with kids who were. It doesn’t matter. So no, I am not wildly lashing out at parents considering redshirting.

If it doesn’t matter, then no one would do it.

But the argument is that it makes no difference it all evens out. So, why so angry?

You have no knowledge or empathy for children who inadvertently take on the burden of parents inappropriately doing this. You’re lucky you don’t have this issue.

Everyone in here with a younger child has been bragging about how advanced and top of their class they are. Who is struggling?

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

It literally does not matter, speaking as a parent who didn’t redshirt and has kids in their older teens now. If you think it matters, you have lead, so far, a pretty narrow and restricted life. Of all the things my kids have encountered in their lives, other kids redshirting is never, ever on the list of even mildly problematic things they’ve encountered. I’d honestly be pretty stressed out as a parent if they told me the redshirting of other kids bothered them, because it would show my kids lacked a healthy sense of perspective and reality. (Fortunately my kids would never do that.)

Also, you have plenty of options with private school: just go to a private school that does not redshirt. There are some schools that don’t redshirt very often if at all. I don’t understand why that concept is so hard to grasp, but with private schools you have options.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

There is a cut-off in New York and talk of some other districts considering it.

New York City only, to be precise. Oddly schools across the country have not been rushing to emulate the NYC education system.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

It literally does not matter, speaking as a parent who didn’t redshirt and has kids in their older teens now. If you think it matters, you have lead, so far, a pretty narrow and restricted life. Of all the things my kids have encountered in their lives, other kids redshirting is never, ever on the list of even mildly problematic things they’ve encountered. I’d honestly be pretty stressed out as a parent if they told me the redshirting of other kids bothered them, because it would show my kids lacked a healthy sense of perspective and reality. (Fortunately my kids would never do that.)

Also, you have plenty of options with private school: just go to a private school that does not redshirt. There are some schools that don’t redshirt very often if at all. I don’t understand why that concept is so hard to grasp, but with private schools you have options.

You are incredibly naive with a sense of entitlement.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

There is a cut-off in New York and talk of some other districts considering it.

New York City only, to be precise. Oddly schools across the country have not been rushing to emulate the NYC education system.

And that doesn’t make it right.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.

There is a cut-off in New York and talk of some other districts considering it.

New York City only, to be precise. Oddly schools across the country have not been rushing to emulate the NYC education system.

NP. So it’s true that it is mandatory in nyc.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason people shouldn’t redshirt? Theres just a bunch of ranting and raving in here with no substance.

The crazed anti-redshirters don’t like it. That’s literally all there is as far as reasons. This is why normal people in real life do not care about this whatsoever.

Normal people don’t redshirt and can write coherent sentences.

Sorry you can’t understand basic English. Maybe you should have been redshirted?

I think the unhinged one is the crazy loon who WAS redshirted by her parents. She's been a loser ever since and blames her parents that she never became anything in life. Because she was redshirted. I think most of this is a misguided attempt to convince other people to not let their kids end up like her. Otherwise I have no idea why someone would be so overly invested in what strangers decide to do with their kindergartners.

I think you are right. She trolls and haunts these threads and wildly lashes out at parents considering redshirting. It’s sad. (Didn’t redshirt.)

Much like yourself.

Uh, I’m not lashing out at parents considering redshirting. I think it’s fine. Not a big deal. My kids weren’t redshirted but are friends with kids who were. It doesn’t matter. So no, I am not wildly lashing out at parents considering redshirting.

If it doesn’t matter, then no one would do it.

But the argument is that it makes no difference it all evens out. So, why so angry?

Read the post just up ahead of what someone wrote about how it does impact some children who don’t deserve to have this happen to them.

That's not evidence.