My son's kindergarten class has several 7 yr olds in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As for "gap year" as a hip new trend --- I have no idea what you're talking about and I know of 5 teens currently undertaking a gap year. Most have to do with maturity (probably because their parents didn't give them the (gap) year when they were 5) or working to save for college tuition.

Yes, the fact that you know 5 kids doing it probably reflects that fact that it's a hip new trend. The idea has been heavily marketed in the US recently, some colleges have changed admissions policies to accomodate it, and local privates are increasingly flagging it as an option.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513204576047723922275698.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pls, you take a turn at being a lexicographer.

Did you mean neologist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, and probably named by an anti-redshirter for just the reasons you describe. So any non-anti-redshirters want to offer suggestions to name those kids, usually boys with summer birthdays and a few other exceptions, who enter kindergarten at age just-turned-6 (rather than 4-turning-5) but excludes and kid help back due to parents' neuroses?

No, why dredge up yet another ambiguous name. A simple description is more precise and will suffice.

Really? Try it.

[Anonymous]

No. It would add more confusion for the confused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. It would add more confusion for the confused.

All hat, no cattle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. It would add more confusion for the confused.

All hat, no cattle.

Tee hee! Love it.

All windup, no pitch.

[Anonymous]

All wax, no wick.

[Anonymous]

Older and bigger but with no stick

[Anonymous]

All hammer, no nail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for "gap year" as a hip new trend --- I have no idea what you're talking about and I know of 5 teens currently undertaking a gap year. Most have to do with maturity (probably because their parents didn't give them the (gap) year when they were 5) or working to save for college tuition.

Not sure which statement is funnier: that kids are "undertaking" a gap year, or that teenagers have to take a gap year because they weren't held back in kindergarten!

I have to go now and undertake some television or a good book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As for "gap year" as a hip new trend --- I have no idea what you're talking about and I know of 5 teens currently undertaking a gap year. Most have to do with maturity (probably because their parents didn't give them the (gap) year when they were 5) or working to save for college tuition.

Not sure which statement is funnier: that kids are "undertaking" a gap year, or that teenagers have to take a gap year because they weren't held back in kindergarten!

I have to go now and undertake some television or a good book.

Go look for your sense of humor. Maybe it's next to the remote.

[Anonymous]

All head, no beer.

[Anonymous]

Makes my blood boil when a parent justifies her decision to redshirt by stating she will worry about her kids and I should worry about my own. That's the same logic used by the crazies who don't vaccinate their kids despite the health risk it poses to everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The motives behind, hold back, redshirt, or whatever sugarcoating you wish appear the same for many -- an attempt by some to gain a competitive advantage in the classroom or the gridiron -- before K or 9th grade or College.

No use hiding behind semantic smoke.

Well said!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holdbacks for competitive advantage. Sounds ok.

Excellent suggestion. Captures the spirit of the situation well