PSA for the kindergarten red shirters

[Anonymous]

I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

+1

My kid mastered that shit when he was 18 months. LOVED those Teach Your Baby to Read DVDs!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

So don't do it. There, end of discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

+1

My kid mastered that shit when he was 18 months. LOVED those Teach Your Baby to Read DVDs!!

That's nice you had your child when he was 18 months old. Mine was still in China in an orphanage. For 18 more months beyond that. Until we got her right around when she turned 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

+1

My kid mastered that shit when he was 18 months. LOVED those Teach Your Baby to Read DVDs!!

That's nice you had your child when he was 18 months old. Mine was still in China in an orphanage. For 18 more months beyond that. Until we got her right around when she turned 3.

Yeah, for some reason, they don't do those "Teach Your Baby to Read" (IN ENGLISH, nonetheless!) DVDS in Chinese orphanages. . . stupid original PP. . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

+1

My kid mastered that shit when he was 18 months. LOVED those Teach Your Baby to Read DVDs!!

That's nice you had your child when he was 18 months old. Mine was still in China in an orphanage. For 18 more months beyond that. Until we got her right around when she turned 3.

They probably have some other DVDs that could work - probably something like Teach Your Adopted Kid To Read. I'm sure if you get those and all of the workbooks and flashcards you can drill your kid endlessly until they catch up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

+1

My kid mastered that shit when he was 18 months. LOVED those Teach Your Baby to Read DVDs!!

That's nice you had your child when he was 18 months old. Mine was still in China in an orphanage. For 18 more months beyond that. Until we got her right around when she turned 3.

They probably have some other DVDs that could work - probably something like Teach Your Adopted Kid To Read. I'm sure if you get those and all of the workbooks and flashcards you can drill your kid endlessly until they catch up.

Yeah, that's true. I should have done that. And disregarded her emotional and social development all in favor of Teaching My Adopted Child to Read. I wonder why they didn't mention this in all the adoption training classes we had to do. I'll make a note to advise them to include this in the future.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

+1

My kid mastered that shit when he was 18 months. LOVED those Teach Your Baby to Read DVDs!!

That's nice you had your child when he was 18 months old. Mine was still in China in an orphanage. For 18 more months beyond that. Until we got her right around when she turned 3.

They probably have some other DVDs that could work - probably something like Teach Your Adopted Kid To Read. I'm sure if you get those and all of the workbooks and flashcards you can drill your kid endlessly until they catch up.

Yeah, that's true. I should have done that. And disregarded her emotional and social development all in favor of Teaching My Adopted Child to Read. I wonder why they didn't mention this in all the adoption training classes we had to do. I'll make a note to advise them to include this in the future.

Seriously - who cares about a child's well-being?! And who has time to worry about what's really age appropriate or not?! The only thing is academic prep!! Drill, baby, drill!

[Anonymous]

I didn't redshirt my july bday son, but ONLY because I found a public Montessori program for him. There is no way in hell I would send my barely 5 year old into a k classroom of today with its rigid focus on accelerated academics. A k class of the 1970s and 80s, absolutely. Here's the thing, K has changed a lot since we were in it and it is no longer developmentally appropriate for a good portion of kids with summer or later birthdays, boys especially. No way would I set up my kid for a lifetime of hating school because we happen to live in at the end of a pendulum swing toward inappropriate too-riguous academics. When K is again 1/2 day of play-based education (as it was for me), redshirting will disappear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't redshirt my july bday son, but ONLY because I found a public Montessori program for him. There is no way in hell I would send my barely 5 year old into a k classroom of today with its rigid focus on accelerated academics. A k class of the 1970s and 80s, absolutely. Here's the thing, K has changed a lot since we were in it and it is no longer developmentally appropriate for a good portion of kids with summer or later birthdays, boys especially. No way would I set up my kid for a lifetime of hating school because we happen to live in at the end of a pendulum swing toward inappropriate too-riguous academics. When K is again 1/2 day of play-based education (as it was for me), redshirting will disappear.

Rigid focus on accelerated academics? Or a remedial curriculum, per the PP? Or accelerated and remedial at the same time? SO CONFUSING!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Why not just admit the redshirting?

Because people are sanctimonious jerks about redshirting. Read any thread about redshirting on this board for an example.

Reading DCUM has made me actively support redshirting.

Me too. I used to be anti-redshirting, until I read the posts from the anti-redshirters on DCUM.

It's becoming sort of a DCUM sport: watching the "on time" mommies work themselves into a lather over the "6 yr old K" kids. Funny stuff.

How so?

See what I mean? Too funny. Any post regarding the advancing or holding back of summer bday kids (those without any special needs or considerations) always always gets the panties of the "advanced" mommies in a twist. Just sit back and watch.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Why not just admit the redshirting?

Because people are sanctimonious jerks about redshirting. Read any thread about redshirting on this board for an example.

Reading DCUM has made me actively support redshirting.

Me too. I used to be anti-redshirting, until I read the posts from the anti-redshirters on DCUM.

It's becoming sort of a DCUM sport: watching the "on time" mommies work themselves into a lather over the "6 yr old K" kids. Funny stuff.

How so?

See what I mean? Too funny. Any post regarding the advancing or holding back of summer bday kids (those without any special needs or considerations) always always gets the panties of the "advanced" mommies in a twist. Just sit back and watch.

no actually I don't see what you mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't redshirt my july bday son, but ONLY because I found a public Montessori program for him. There is no way in hell I would send my barely 5 year old into a k classroom of today with its rigid focus on accelerated academics. A k class of the 1970s and 80s, absolutely. Here's the thing, K has changed a lot since we were in it and it is no longer developmentally appropriate for a good portion of kids with summer or later birthdays, boys especially. No way would I set up my kid for a lifetime of hating school because we happen to live in at the end of a pendulum swing toward inappropriate too-riguous academics. When K is again 1/2 day of play-based education (as it was for me), redshirting will disappear.

Rigid focus on accelerated academics? Or a remedial curriculum, per the PP? Or accelerated and remedial at the same time? SO CONFUSING!!!!!

I think it's both. A remedial academic oriented curriculum is how I'd characterize most kindergartens. Like spending two weeks on shape recognition while sitting at a desk. Not enough play and not enough challenge either. The thing is, the redshirted kids still have to go through kindergarten whether they go on time or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Why not just admit the redshirting?

Because people are sanctimonious jerks about redshirting. Read any thread about redshirting on this board for an example.

Reading DCUM has made me actively support redshirting.

Me too. I used to be anti-redshirting, until I read the posts from the anti-redshirters on DCUM.

It's becoming sort of a DCUM sport: watching the "on time" mommies work themselves into a lather over the "6 yr old K" kids. Funny stuff.

I think that a good percentage of the anti-redshirt people on this board are probably really, really sheltered and have encountered few real problems in life. I don't know how else to explain the lather and hysteria.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine redshirting. The kindergarten curriculum is so slow to begin with.

So don't do it. There, end of discussion.

We had a September birthday so we had little choice. My kid is reading very well and can do basic math. He is so bored in his new pre program.