This age discrepancy due to "redshirting" is ridiculous
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Anonymous
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A almost 2 year difference in a class is crazy- is there any movement to change this? Parents hold their kids back with an April->September birthday for absolutely no good reason - maturity?? really?? what 5 year old is not immature?? let's add 6-7-8-9-10 ages plus. Academic? really? whose kids have not had periods of stumbling and then zoom off? I can mostly see in FFX Cty that holding back is in hopes that the child is either now physically better off (at K? really? so early!) or academically - I can gather parents hope to catch both. However, this whole age range discrepancy is absurd- there is no reason any child should be turning 7 during K (no disabilities etc).
Am I alone? I am not talking about any child with disabilities etc.- it's just this screwed up society where we live that has turned around a class to a two year age range and it's not because the children are geniuses (held back due to whatever fluffy non developmental reason- but hey- their kids is the oldest- that used to be a bad stigma waaay back when I went to school). |
Anonymous
| I'm not sure why they let parents choose to hold a child back without a valid reason. If there were some sort of screening or justification required, I think it would change a lot. |
Anonymous
| It should be illegal unless the kid fails |
Anonymous
| I don't know. It's weird that my 4 year old is in a kindergarten class with a boy who just turned 7. |
Anonymous
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And why does it anger you so?
Your kid is where you think he should be... so what if there are a few older kids? Actually, that is embraced by the Montessori method. |
Anonymous
Sounds like the child needed to repeat the year if he has already turned 7. |
Anonymous
| This bugs me, too. In my children's school, there is one family with 4 children - all boys - and the parents redshirted them ALL. So, they are all much older than the rest of the kids in their respective classes and taller and larger and they just don't fit in well. She told me all about doing this and how she thought it was a great idea and I just couldn't bring myself to tell her how dumb it is. My kids started K at age 5 and they loved it and they are advanced academically. I think a child is either going to do well in school or not and starting them late is not going to help their chances of succeding academically anyways. |
Anonymous
| PS The four brothers do not do well academically. In fact, they are all a little bit behind so I don't know why the mom thinks her plan worked. It didn't make any difference at all. |
Anonymous
Maybe they would have done even worse if they were each a year ahead. |
Anonymous
| Agreed, we will be forced to hold back our child due to a september birthday. It sucks for him as he's ready this year to go. His academics are very strong. |
Anonymous
| Why do you care what others do? MYOB and parent your own kid. Don't worry what I or others do. |
Anonymous
| The people who complain about redshirting are generally the ones who also complain about other children being disruptive in class, which is generally a direct correlation with being one of the youngest in class. |
Anonymous
| There are plenty of studies that show redshirting may help the redshirts do better initially. Alas, no studies that show how redshirts help the kids attending in the assigned age ranges. In fact studies show redshirting results in application of incorrect behavioral expectations to the rest of the class. |
Anonymous
Then he should be in a special class for slower kids. |
Anonymous
Please clarify. Is he starting kindergarten in the next 2 weeks as a 7-year old? |