Why don’t schools make you just through some hoops for redshirting?

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Anonymous wrote:Being a preemie is the only legit medical reason I can think of for extreme redshirting in a mainstream classroom. The other reasons people give for extreme redshirting (holding back a May bday in a district with a Sept cutoff) are best addressed in a special ed classroom. Anyone saying otherwise is just trying to game the system.

What are you doing to actually help your kid? Prepare your kid for the road, not the road for the kid by clearing all the obstacles. There will always be someone bigger, smarter, older, etc. That's life.

Yeah definitely make your 4 y/o go to full day kindergarten to teach them some life lessons. Great parenting. Gold Star.

What about use the resources available to everyone to maximize your child’s chance of success and use the extra year to work on the thing your kid— your individual, idiosyncratic kid— would benefit most from?

I’m parent of the September daughter who will spend her “extra” preK year in an outdoor program. Why? Because she’s already academically advanced and doesn’t need more math and sciences, she needs another year in her second language and she needs another year of cooperative play with kids who are bigger and stronger than her to work on her social skills and problem solving.

That’s what my kid needs. Your kid probably needs something different. I expect you would know what that is and seek it out for them.

lol at an academically advanced 4 year old. If she’s that advanced she should go to k on time. Lmao.

Why? She can already write her name and count and spell and she’ll be reading by the summer. That’s not special or abnormal in our family.

Why should she sit indoors all day to learn skills she will already have while fighting all the natural immature tendencies of a four year old? I don’t understand how that makes any sense as a learning environment for her.

You do understand she will have to eventually go to kindergarten right? If she’s so advanced now she’ll be even more bored in another year.

Oh for goodness’ sakes. You must be the only person on this board who has an issue with a 4 year old being forced to attend K. Give it a rest! I wouldn’t send my 4 year old either. PP is 100 percent making the right call.

Btw, all three of my kids were napping in K at age 5.

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Anonymous wrote:I get a little bitter about it with my developmentally delayed May bday boy who will be starting K in early August. Because he has an IEP, he needs to start K on time, or else he loses his services. I do wish that, where at-will redshirting is allowed, special needs kids could be included.

Why would you be bitter? You son is getting what he needs. You can red shirt too and use your own insurance/funds to pay for additional services. People that red shirt have to pay for another year of day care or they have to pay or take time to tutor.

I would be happy to pay for another year of daycare, where he currently gets itinerant services. If we redshirted him, he would still be entitled to services, but would no longer get itinerant services - I would have to get someone to bring him back and forth to PT, OT, and ST. That is not feasible for working parents, esp where we are also taking him to private therapies already. His school therapists work on different things than his private therapists. It's not a cost savings measure for the school (since we could still technically use the services), but they have a blanket rule that it is better for children to start "on time," even though his special ed teachers all think another year of preK would be good for him.

That’s ridiculous, PP. This rule is absurd especially since it goes against the advice of his own special ed teachers!!

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Anonymous wrote:I get a little bitter about it with my developmentally delayed May bday boy who will be starting K in early August. Because he has an IEP, he needs to start K on time, or else he loses his services. I do wish that, where at-will redshirting is allowed, special needs kids could be included.

Why would you be bitter? You son is getting what he needs. You can red shirt too and use your own insurance/funds to pay for additional services. People that red shirt have to pay for another year of day care or they have to pay or take time to tutor.

I would be happy to pay for another year of daycare, where he currently gets itinerant services. If we redshirted him, he would still be entitled to services, but would no longer get itinerant services - I would have to get someone to bring him back and forth to PT, OT, and ST. That is not feasible for working parents, esp where we are also taking him to private therapies already. His school therapists work on different things than his private therapists. It's not a cost savings measure for the school (since we could still technically use the services), but they have a blanket rule that it is better for children to start "on time," even though his special ed teachers all think another year of preK would be good for him.

And, yet, many of us with similar kids managed to get our kids to their therapy appointments and work. It doesn't sound like you are getting all the help your child needs and just hoping the school system takes care of it not realizing how bad most school services are or how you are hurting your child.

Wow. That is a really nasty reply.