Since this is anonymous, why did you REALLY redshirt your kid?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have two boys with June birthdays. I redshirted one and not the other based on their needs at the time. Personally, I think there should be a lot more fluidity in grade placement, and grouping kids based on age leads to a lot of unnecessary work for teachers, too much competition between streets, and strains resource programs.

This makes zero sense. Grouping with large age gaps creates more work as kids with a two year age span are in very different places developmentally. Holding back a June child makes zero sense. I hope you got your child evaluated and into therapy if they were having developmental issues.

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A kid with a June birthday is already on the older half. I bet that poster was simply bursting pride that their son outperformed kids 7-18 months younger than them all through school.

I have two with June birthdays. The one I held back wasn’t outperforming anyone, and he probably could have used an additional year of early elementary school.
The one I started right after turning 5 years old is actually the one outperforming his classmates and would probably be better off with more difficult academics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two boys with June birthdays. I redshirted one and not the other based on their needs at the time. Personally, I think there should be a lot more fluidity in grade placement, and grouping kids based on age leads to a lot of unnecessary work for teachers, too much competition between streets, and strains resource programs.

This makes zero sense. Grouping with large age gaps creates more work as kids with a two year age span are in very different places developmentally. Holding back a June child makes zero sense. I hope you got your child evaluated and into therapy if they were having developmental issues.

+1

A kid with a June birthday is already on the older half. I bet that poster was simply bursting pride that their son outperformed kids 7-18 months younger than them all through school.

I have two with June birthdays. The one I held back wasn’t outperforming anyone, and he probably could have used an additional year of early elementary school.
The one I started right after turning 5 years old is actually the one outperforming his classmates and would probably be better off with more difficult academics.

Oh, and I am bursting with pride for both of my sons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:THE SCHOOL CUTOFF DATE IS SEPTEMBER, NOT JANUARY.

Please, please, PLEASE get this through your thick, crazy skull.

in some states it's even august or *gasp* July.

My kid goes to a private school with a June 1 cutoff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Natural law anti redshirter also believes that if you send your child on time as a fall birthday in a (say) Sept 1 cutoff state, you are redshirting. She is delusional.

I think she's a crazy New Yorker, which does follow the calendar year, and thinks every other place is exactly the same. She also doesn't have any kids and really has no dog in this fight, but shows up all the time with the crazy, also never bothers to read other posts just seems to copy and paste prepared monologues about the calendar and such.

She isn't the only crazy anti redshirter. There are a few of them. They collectively have the common sense of a walnut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have two boys with June birthdays. I redshirted one and not the other based on their needs at the time. Personally, I think there should be a lot more fluidity in grade placement, and grouping kids based on age leads to a lot of unnecessary work for teachers, too much competition between streets, and strains resource programs.

This makes zero sense. Grouping with large age gaps creates more work as kids with a two year age span are in very different places developmentally. Holding back a June child makes zero sense. I hope you got your child evaluated and into therapy if they were having developmental issues.

+1

A kid with a June birthday is already on the older half. I bet that poster was simply bursting pride that their son outperformed kids 7-18 months younger than them all through school.

No, they are the youngest.

Last time I checked, June was in the first half of the year. But hey, let's do the math anyway to make sure. We'll start with a non-leap year. 365 divided by 2 is 182.5, which means that anyone born in the first 182 days of a non-leap year is on the old side, anyone born on the 183rd day of the year is smack in the middle, and anyone born after than is on the young side. Let's start adding up the days of each month until we pass 182.

31 plus 28 is 59. 59 plus 31 is 90. 90 plus 30 is 120. 120 plus 31 is 151. 151 plus 30 is 181. 181 plus 31 is 212. Oh look at that, we passed 182. We just calculated that there are a total of 181 days from January to June in a non-leap year, which is less than 182.5. This means that the older half includes, not only those born from January to June, but anyone born on July 1st.

Now, let's do leap years. 366 divided by 2 is 183, which means that anyone born in the first 183 days of a non-leap year is on the old side, and that anyone born after that is on the young side. Since we already calculated that there are 181 days in the first 6 months of a non-leap year, we know that there are 182 days in the first 6 months of a leap year. This means that the older half, once again, includes everyone born from January to June, as well as on July 1st.

On top of all this, September is the most common month to be born. https://www.rd.com/article/september-popular-birth-month/ Thus, there are kids born in the later half of the year. All in all, I think I've gathered up enough evidence to prove that your statement about June-born kids being on the young end is complete bogus.

you are seriously just trolling at this point.

[Anonymous]

Maybe for this person’s mental health we ought to ask Jeff to close this thread. I am starting to feel sorry for her, too. It used to be funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe for this person’s mental health we ought to ask Jeff to close this thread. I am starting to feel sorry for her, too. It used to be funny.

or the person is just trolling at this point. either way - i agree the thread needs to die.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I redshirted my August born son. He's in 4th grade now, and whenever anyone asks him his grade, he says, "I'm really in 5th grade but my mom made me redo pre-k". He just didn't seem ready to leave the cute Montessori preschool that he attended at the time, and he's doing really well socially and academically, so I still think I made the right decision. Also, he's on a highly ranked travel hockey team (not in DC area anymore) and he's totally obsessed, so if he wants to play college hockey someday, he probably would have had to play a year of pg somewhere anyway.

Does he make you proud that he's outperforming kids 5-to-16 months younger than him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I redshirted my August born son. He's in 4th grade now, and whenever anyone asks him his grade, he says, "I'm really in 5th grade but my mom made me redo pre-k". He just didn't seem ready to leave the cute Montessori preschool that he attended at the time, and he's doing really well socially and academically, so I still think I made the right decision. Also, he's on a highly ranked travel hockey team (not in DC area anymore) and he's totally obsessed, so if he wants to play college hockey someday, he probably would have had to play a year of pg somewhere anyway.

Does he make you proud that he's outperforming kids 5-to-16 months younger than him?

4th grader on a travel team. Sounds fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe for this person’s mental health we ought to ask Jeff to close this thread. I am starting to feel sorry for her, too. It used to be funny.

or the person is just trolling at this point. either way - i agree the thread needs to die.

I agree. I used to think the nutty anti-redshirters were just funny (didn’t redshirt). But this person seems truly off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I redshirted my August born son. He's in 4th grade now, and whenever anyone asks him his grade, he says, "I'm really in 5th grade but my mom made me redo pre-k". He just didn't seem ready to leave the cute Montessori preschool that he attended at the time, and he's doing really well socially and academically, so I still think I made the right decision. Also, he's on a highly ranked travel hockey team (not in DC area anymore) and he's totally obsessed, so if he wants to play college hockey someday, he probably would have had to play a year of pg somewhere anyway.

Does he make you proud that he's outperforming kids 5-to-16 months younger than him?

Time for your meds crazy person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:THE SCHOOL CUTOFF DATE IS SEPTEMBER, NOT JANUARY.

Please, please, PLEASE get this through your thick, crazy skull.

Have you any idea how many populated New York is? It may only make up 2 percent of the country state-wise, but it makes up way more than that population-wise.

[Anonymous]

Because my parents have been cut off by my brother for not redshirting him. I have a March birthday, so I was already on the older end by default. My brother, however, has a December birthday, and our parents sent him to Kindergarten when he was 4. He was fine academically, but socially, he suffered greatly. Anytime our parents need help with something and I call him, he says something along the lines of, "Why should I care about their needs? They evidently didn't care about my needs when they sent me off to Kindergarten so young."

[Anonymous]

Because her prek-8 pulled me aside in January of prek and said she would not be ready for Kindergarten. We argued for 2 months but I finally relented because my older DD also at the school and I wanted them to be able to stay somewhere relatively nice. She is turning 10 this year in 3rd grade with a January bday. DD was definitely not ready for kindergarten but now her classmates still want to do little kid stuff and she’s bored because she is very smart and not challenged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because my parents have been cut off by my brother for not redshirting him. I have a March birthday, so I was already on the older end by default. My brother, however, has a December birthday, and our parents sent him to Kindergarten when he was 4. He was fine academically, but socially, he suffered greatly. Anytime our parents need help with something and I call him, he says something along the lines of, "Why should I care about their needs? They evidently didn't care about my needs when they sent me off to Kindergarten so young."

I hope you are joking. That is a lot of resentment over kindergarten