Since this is anonymous, why did you REALLY redshirt your kid?
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Anonymous
In a way, green-shirting makes even less sense than redshirting. Parents who redshirt are being selfish being they're giving their kid an advantage at the expense of other kids. But parents who greenshirt are putting their own kid at a disadvantage at the gain of other kids. Hurting your own child is just as bad as hurting other children. |
Anonymous
| The reality is the age cut-off are always somewhat arbitrary and there are plenty of kids who are going to land on either side of the cutoff who are ready or not ready |
Anonymous
| OP didn’t like how this was going and just started another thread asking Why don’t schools ban redshirting? I am convinced that she’s annoyed her kid is “behind” some older classmate and she can’t get beyond it. |
Anonymous
OMG, is OP the crazy anti-redshirt parent who wanted the cutoff to be Jan 1 because she thought fall birthdays after the cutoff were somehow cheating? I thought that poster had gone away. What a nutball. Why are DCUMs anti-redshirters so effing crazy? Collectively they are one of the weirdest groups on DCUM. |
Anonymous
What's annoying is when the older kids are rewarded for outperforming the younger kids. Why should someone be rewarded for an accomplishment that was inevitable? |
Anonymous
| Because he is a boy and the learning environment is stacked against him. He is also still one of the shortest, but was born 6 weeks early. He is a leader in his class and has scored in top 99% for age and grade on NnAT and Cogat. He plays travel sports for the correct age, but plays with Rec friends in other sports. But mainly because he needed an extra year to mature. |
Anonymous
Does it make you feel proud that he's outperforming kids a year younger than him? |
Anonymous
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I wish I would've 1. known what "redshirting" even was and 2. that I would've done so.
I could see DS benefitting from it socially, emotionally, physically. Academically, he's ahead so not sure if that would've made things tricky (ex: was reading summer before Kinder, was reading Harry Potter in 1st grade so I do wonder if boredom issues would've occurred if I'd started him a year later). |
Anonymous
I'm sorry it didn't occur to you to cheat. What a horrible parent you are playing by the rules. |
Anonymous
If it’s not against the rules, it’s not cheating. The schools allow and encourage it in some cases. |
Anonymous
+1 Idk. Weird af though. |
Anonymous
| Why did we resuscitate this thread? |
Anonymous
It was resuscitated by the weird natural law anti-redshirt troll. Look at the dates on the posts -- it's obvious. I assume serious mental health issues are at play. |
Anonymous
DP. CogAT and NNAT are age normed, so PP's kid would have no advantage over the younger kids. |
Anonymous
But this is wrong. I redshirted my august 28th (September 1st cutoff) and she is closer to her classmates age now than she would have been had I not redshirted. The youngest child in her class was born beginning of June. The oldest is 2 weeks older than DD. Then there are several September and October birthdays... I think the median birthday in her class is January (maybe even December). My DD is with her peers now and would have been unfairly compared to much older kids has she gone the year before with a boy that was over a year older than she is and with most of her class 10-8 months older. I did not redshirt for academic or sport, but for social and emotional considerations. Had my DD been born in July or June, I would have had a harder decision to make |