Just another redshirting vent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t afford private school, but you can afford to do whatever you have been doing for the last five years though, right? Or if your kid had been born in October instead of August you would have been totally screwed?

What does this mean? Correct, I can't afford 30k a year in tuition to a private school but I can afford free public pre-K and my mom to watch my kid after that. Not sure why you're confused.

Why can’t you just do that one more year?

[Anonymous]

On the flip side, your friend will have a 20-year-old HS senior someday, while your child will start college at 18.

Think long term, OP.

[Anonymous]

Can you always tell why a kid was red-shirted if you don’t know them well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t afford private school, but you can afford to do whatever you have been doing for the last five years though, right? Or if your kid had been born in October instead of August you would have been totally screwed?

What does this mean? Correct, I can't afford 30k a year in tuition to a private school but I can afford free public pre-K and my mom to watch my kid after that. Not sure why you're confused.

Why can’t you just do that one more year?

Because I can't. Public pre-K is for children who are 4 on Sept 1, I can't just send my kid for another year after that because I want to, unless the school board says it's okay, which I'm sure they won't because my kid is 4 this year and knows his letters, numbers, etc and doesn't have any delays so they won't allow him to repeat it. This whole "you have a choice!" thing is for people who can afford private

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you always tell why a kid was red-shirted if you don’t know them well?

Some people can. They can also see through your BS “excuses.” See the other thread on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t afford private school, but you can afford to do whatever you have been doing for the last five years though, right? Or if your kid had been born in October instead of August you would have been totally screwed?

What does this mean? Correct, I can't afford 30k a year in tuition to a private school but I can afford free public pre-K and my mom to watch my kid after that. Not sure why you're confused.

Why can’t you just do that one more year?

Because I can't. Public pre-K is for children who are 4 on Sept 1, I can't just send my kid for another year after that because I want to, unless the school board says it's okay, which I'm sure they won't because my kid is 4 this year and knows his letters, numbers, etc and doesn't have any delays so they won't allow him to repeat it. This whole "you have a choice!" thing is for people who can afford private

Sorry. I have never lived anywhere that there was public preK. Your mom won’t watch her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with "Junior First". Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year? He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims. So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first." In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years. He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class. Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class. He will do first grade the year after that. So he is being "held back" one year. The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.

Ok so he was redshirted with a March birthday, apparently. That's unusual. The school website says that it's for May - Dec birthdays. But who cares, not your kid, not your school, you have no actual clue why they chose to put him in the transitional class or what he'll do next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can’t afford private school, but you can afford to do whatever you have been doing for the last five years though, right? Or if your kid had been born in October instead of August you would have been totally screwed?

What does this mean? Correct, I can't afford 30k a year in tuition to a private school but I can afford free public pre-K and my mom to watch my kid after that. Not sure why you're confused.

Why can’t you just do that one more year?

Because I can't. Public pre-K is for children who are 4 on Sept 1, I can't just send my kid for another year after that because I want to, unless the school board says it's okay, which I'm sure they won't because my kid is 4 this year and knows his letters, numbers, etc and doesn't have any delays so they won't allow him to repeat it. This whole "you have a choice!" thing is for people who can afford private

OK so sounds like redshirting is not allowed in your kids' school. What are you complaining about again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the flip side, your friend will have a 20-year-old HS senior someday, while your child will start college at 18.

Think long term, OP.

I don't think wealthy people mind that much, though. As someone stated, it's infantilizing your child. This contributes to the "failure to launch" problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with "Junior First". Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year? He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims. So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first." In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years. He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class. Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class. He will do first grade the year after that. So he is being "held back" one year. The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.

Ok so he was redshirted with a March birthday, apparently. That's unusual. The school website says that it's for May - Dec birthdays. But who cares, not your kid, not your school, you have no actual clue why they chose to put him in the transitional class or what he'll do next year.

As OP stated, it doesn't affect her, but it's the overall redshirting everywhere she's addressing. It's a broader topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with "Junior First". Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year? He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims. So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first." In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years. He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class. Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class. He will do first grade the year after that. So he is being "held back" one year. The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.

Ok so he was redshirted with a March birthday, apparently. That's unusual. The school website says that it's for May - Dec birthdays. But who cares, not your kid, not your school, you have no actual clue why they chose to put him in the transitional class or what he'll do next year.

Work on your math, please. You're making us pro-redshirters look bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with "Junior First". Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year? He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims. So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first." In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years. He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class. Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class. He will do first grade the year after that. So he is being "held back" one year. The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.

Ok so he was redshirted with a March birthday, apparently. That's unusual. The school website says that it's for May - Dec birthdays. But who cares, not your kid, not your school, you have no actual clue why they chose to put him in the transitional class or what he'll do next year.

Work on your math, please. You're making us pro-redshirters look bad.

Sorry So he has a JANUARY birthday and was redshirted (he is 6 years 9 months old now.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with "Junior First". Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year? He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims. So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first." In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years. He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class. Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class. He will do first grade the year after that. So he is being "held back" one year. The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.

Ok so he was redshirted with a March birthday, apparently. That's unusual. The school website says that it's for May - Dec birthdays. But who cares, not your kid, not your school, you have no actual clue why they chose to put him in the transitional class or what he'll do next year.

As OP stated, it doesn't affect her, but it's the overall redshirting everywhere she's addressing. It's a broader topic.

a broader topic with zero relevance to her, since her school doesn't do redshirting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not familiar with "Junior First". Are you sure he won't be going into 2nd grade next year? He'll definately stand out as he'd be a full year older than the other kids.

No it's a transition year between K and 1st, I'm in the Baltimore area and a lot of the prep schools have this option

Well it appears to be just a single year of redshirting, not 2 years like OP claims. So perhaps this child has some special needs that required both redshirting for K and "pre-first." In any event she should MYOB.

https://www.gilman.edu/academics/pre-first

Not sure where I claimed the kid was redshirted 2 years. He started K at 5.75 years old which is the correct time for him to have started- if he was born in late fall, he was 5 when he started K and was on the older end of kids in the class. Now, at the end of K, instead of going on to first grade he is going on to the transition class. He will do first grade the year after that. So he is being "held back" one year. The fact that makes him super old compared to other kids is that he was already on the older end starting K, it's not like he was an august birthday.

Ok so he was redshirted with a March birthday, apparently. That's unusual. The school website says that it's for May - Dec birthdays. But who cares, not your kid, not your school, you have no actual clue why they chose to put him in the transitional class or what he'll do next year.

As OP stated, it doesn't affect her, but it's the overall redshirting everywhere she's addressing. It's a broader topic.

a broader topic with zero relevance to her, since her school doesn't do redshirting.

Her school does redshirting, just not as much as the private schools do. In order to redshirt at OP's school, she would have to send her DC to a year of private pk or private k and then go back to public k. Or she could "homeschool" him for a year. Instead, she is choosing to send her child to k when the cutoff says to send her child to k.

[Anonymous]

Its just a money making scam. Your child isn't immature, they are appropriate for their age and moving ahead is far more helpful than harmful in our expereince.