Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is part of the problem. You can elect to redshirt, but then you're stuck. Your kid, who had a temporary [whatever] that caused you to question his ability to handle kindergarten is now permanently dealing with being in an inappropriate grade. You can't now skip him up to the proper grade easily or in many cases at all.
If redshirting is no big deal, if parents deciding what their child ready for is something we absolutely support, then holding back and promoting forward should be something that can happen more than once, and with relative ease.
AMEN! I've never understood why redshirting is totally up to the parent, but any other switch - starting early, retaining at a later point, or pushing forward at a later point - is such a huge deal and virtually impossible in some cases.
Either the schools trust the parent's assessment of the child, or they don't. Either the school can handle any child within a 12 month age range regardless of ability, or they can't. But letting parents redshirt for any or no reason, and then not allowing any other adjustments seems very odd.
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