Enough is enough with the redshirting!

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Your kid doesn’t need to go to a private elementary school. Just send them to the public school and stop annoying me by making different parenting choices than I do.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

But yours, apparently, does?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

If only there was a solution!

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

Social outcasts? You get more disgusting with every post. Keep going.

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Anonymous wrote:Public schools aren’t retaining anyone because that costs $$$. I’ve only heard of retention being offered when a kid missed a lot of a grade due to something like a serious medical issue, or at the end of the Covid school years - 2019-20 or 2020-21 - if a kid didn’t progress during the closures. My neighbor had a young for grade 1st grader in 20-21 and FCPS did offer to let her repeat 1st in person.

But let this thread be a heads up to everyone: redshirting is common, perhaps even expected, in private schools, especially for the younger for grade kids. So plan accordingly.

+1, and I would say it’s increasingly common in public school among parents who read the data on developmentally appropriate settings for 4-5. So, assume if you send a four year old they’ll be youngest by a year+, and an early five year old by a year. None of this is secret, or unavailable information to you.

Since most public schools do an age cut off around September 1st, the number of kids attending K at age 4 is very small (and even people who complain about excessive redshirting don't complain about redshirting a kid who would be 4 during the "normal" cut off). In NY (which is the only place with a midyear cut off that results in a lot of 4 year olds being eligible for K) it's common for people to redshirt those kids and no one complains about it.

The only redshirting people complain about is when people start redshirting kids who would be well over 5 when starting K but they hold them back anyway. Yes, in some privates that's common place, but the school generally encourages it and everyone has a chance to do it -- they like having an older class of K students and often they will strongly encourage redshirting summer or late spring birthdays. Some schools even offer a transitional year for young K students before taking the regular K class, so you still wind up with a fairly age-homogenous class.

But in public that's not the case, and when some parents start deciding their April or May birthday kid needs another year, it can leave other parents stuck with the consequences of those actions without warning. No one is going to get mad that a parent redshirted so their kid could start K at 5, but when you see kids starting K at 6 and a half, it becomes an issue.

Please yell at me now and tell me I'm a "crazy anti-redshirter" for agreeing this specific issue is a problem.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

But yours, apparently, does?

No, they don't and aren't which I why I just sent them on time.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

Social outcasts? You get more disgusting with every post. Keep going.

Sorry that offends you on an anonymous message board. They are kids that do not get included in things with their peers. I think something it goes the other way too and parents do not like to hear that because it doesn't confirm what they are hoping the outcome is, that their child is a leader in the grade and has some social advantages.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

Social outcasts? You get more disgusting with every post. Keep going.

Sorry that offends you on an anonymous message board. They are kids that do not get included in things with their peers. I think something it goes the other way too and parents do not like to hear that because it doesn't confirm what they are hoping the outcome is, that their child is a leader in the grade and has some social advantages.

So you mentioned that only kids with major developmental issues get redshirted. And also these kids are outcasts. Hmmm. Sounds like such a great inclusive environment.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

Hahaha yes all these private schools with many years of admissions experience are having kids redshirt and yet not do well, because that definitely makes a lot of sense.

God I love the DCUM anti-redshirters. OP is a live one for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

Social outcasts? You get more disgusting with every post. Keep going.

Sorry that offends you on an anonymous message board. They are kids that do not get included in things with their peers. I think something it goes the other way too and parents do not like to hear that because it doesn't confirm what they are hoping the outcome is, that their child is a leader in the grade and has some social advantages.

Tell us more! Please please please.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. Wow, this thread grew fast. I assume the crazy anti-redshirters are frothing again? I don’t have the energy to wade through it.

OP: This is not a serious issue, speaking as a parent of teens and young adults. I did not redshirt. In fact one of my kids is a young spring birthday and has often been the youngest or close to it. I read the absolute meltdowns about redshirting from anti-redshirting posters and understand why kids have no resiliency these days — their parents can’t model it. Crazy, sad people.

OPs kid has suffered not at all as she will be quick to tell you not so humbly. He is in gifted, plays a year up in some sport, super popular, no challenges, yet, she just can’t get past the birthdays of a few classmates for no particular reason. This is her hobby in life, to perseverate on a non issue because she thinks someone else is getting something she’s not. Then she whines about “advantages” as she pays another month of tuition at her posh private school.

Wait, OP is one of the crazy anti-redshirters who doesn’t understand how private school admissions work at an extremely basic level? Hahahahahahaha. The stereotypes just write themselves.

I love the DCUM anti-redshirt threads because the absolute crazy of the anti-redshirters comes out every single time. They can’t keep a lid on it.

I’m the OP and see nothing wrong with red shirting summer. We considered it and the school themselves told us to send him at the same time they were telling others to hold . I said it was out of hand for people to redshirt kids who were already born in the first month of a school year, creating a 23 month gap with someone on the young end, mentioning the two 10 year olds in 3rd in my son’s class. No kids ever really ready for Kinder. I don’t know what people expect their child to be doing to be ready for this grade.

Hahaha this is gold. The private school, the demands that a private school follow your preferred admissions strategy, the whining, the entitlement, it is all just a perfect chef’s kiss of a post. Love it.

DCUM anti-redshirters are continually some of the best entertainment this board has to offer. Please please please never stop posting.

OP probably wears a big fake smile at all the school events having to mix and mingle with these horrible redshirting parents then comes here to gossip and trash them expecting commiseration.

I suspect her crazy leaks out. She is probably as insane-sounding to her fellow private school parents as she is here, though I suspect there is also a group that quietly keep their kids away from her.

It’s the same group that didn’t let her in on the fact that most boys in her year are redshirting. This was knowable information for the OP four years ago, clearly she’s not well integrated into her school.

Well, she could have asked the admissions office, of course. Private schools don’t hide their policies on redshirting during the admissions process.

OP was too busy hearing from the PreK teacher how special her snowflake was to ask questions about what the lesser children were doing/trending toward.

Well he is doing fine so she was right. It’s still annoying. Sorry you don’t like to hear that and need to say I think he’s some special snowflake. You would 100 percent think it was annoying if kids were 2 year older in your own kid’s class and sports teams and you know it. That’s the irony of this whole discussion. Most of the people who hold do not want older peers for their kids.

You’re the only one having this discussion. Everyone else is rolling their eyes. There’s an easy solution but you refuse to take it.

Moving your kids school isn’t an easy solution unless your kid has no friends.

So agitating to have other kids skip a grade to fix this problem is a better solution?

Loon, I didn't say anything except, wow it's annoying there are 10 year olds in my kid's third grade class, get a grip people. Your kid doesn't need to be a star in elemetary school, just send them in a reasonable amount of time. One year redshirt, fine, Two, sorry not reasonable. It's bananas and sorry you don't agree.

Loon? The people crying about birthdays in a 3rd grade classroom are unhinged. Go pick on someone your own size, baddie.

You're taking this really personally. No one is crying. I said it's out of control. And those kids are not thriving, they don't fit in and are social outcasts.

Social outcasts? You get more disgusting with every post. Keep going.

Sorry that offends you on an anonymous message board. They are kids that do not get included in things with their peers. I think something it goes the other way too and parents do not like to hear that because it doesn't confirm what they are hoping the outcome is, that their child is a leader in the grade and has some social advantages.

So you mentioned that only kids with major developmental issues get redshirted. And also these kids are outcasts. Hmmm. Sounds like such a great inclusive environment.

You do you and send your 7 year old to kinder if you see nothing wrong with it. I will do me and roll my eyes and call it annoying. Why stop at 7? Wait until 9. There's nothing wrong with it.