Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
NP but kids that are “very short for their age” are often malnourished as in not getting enough calories or nutrient profile to support their growth. Or there’s an underlying medical condition that is ignored.
Maybe thank the poster for raising that concern? I don’t think it was out of spite.
It depends on the height. At 17 for boys 5’7” is the lower quartile, 5’5” is the lowest decile (lowest 10 percent).
While there is variability and outliers, I’d definitely look into nutrition and hormonal imbalances at that point, especially if the kid started at a higher height percentile in early childhood.
Maybe you need to continue this nutrition chat in the Health and Medicine forum.
I mean this honestly, this person needs to log off and do some deep reflection because this is some unhinged and disturbed behavior that if they're a Lafayette parent is pretty much ensuring no one will support them and if they aren't are doing deep harm to those families.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I've heard it from teachers and principals. It's also literally the stated policy that people have quoted like 30 times on this post. Even so flexibility means there CAN be discretion from the school not there has to be because a parent wants it. Telling a parent no they can't unilaterally decided when to enroll their kids because vibes is not abuse by the admin.
Rep. Andy Ogles thinks you can amend the Constitution simply by passing a bill in the House. Elected representatives aren't always honest or all knowing.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I've heard it from teachers and principals. It's also literally the stated policy that people have quoted like 30 times on this post. Even so flexibility means there CAN be discretion from the school not there has to be because a parent wants it. Telling a parent no they can't unilaterally decided when to enroll their kids because vibes is not abuse by the admin.
Rep. Andy Ogles thinks you can amend the Constitution simply by passing a bill in the House. Elected representatives aren't always honest or all knowing.
Ok that’s what I thought. In one post you went from “there is no flexibility” to “there can be discretion from the school”. And it’s based on “I’ve heard it from teachers and principals”. Cmon now.
The reason I’m doubting what you’re saying is that redshirting is very common in US, 5-10% of all boys, maybe it’s even 20-40% for summer birthdays because nobody is going to redshirt their fall and winter kids. Haven’t seen statistics for DC but it can’t be that different.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I think the person you’re replying to may be affiliated with one of the admins publicly named in the letter, which clearly stated the flexibility is derived from in DC Municipal Regulations 2201.6 and has always been used in the district historically to defer kindergarten enrollment. This poster is clearly not telling the truth and is likely stirring up something to cover abuse of power by district officials.
If you want more proof, Eric Goulet will testify today, if he didn’t already do it, to the DC Council and is publicly calling for official investigations into Chancellor Ferebee and his staff’s conduct.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I think the person you’re replying to may be affiliated with one of the admins publicly named in the letter, which clearly stated the flexibility is derived from in DC Municipal Regulations 2201.6 and has always been used in the district historically to defer kindergarten enrollment. This poster is clearly not telling the truth and is likely stirring up something to cover abuse of power by district officials.
If you want more proof, Eric Goulet will testify today, if he didn’t already do it, to the DC Council and is publicly calling for official investigations into Chancellor Ferebee and his staff’s conduct.
LOL I am definitely not in any way affiliated with the admins names or any admin.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I think the person you’re replying to may be affiliated with one of the admins publicly named in the letter, which clearly stated the flexibility is derived from in DC Municipal Regulations 2201.6 and has always been used in the district historically to defer kindergarten enrollment. This poster is clearly not telling the truth and is likely stirring up something to cover abuse of power by district officials.
If you want more proof, Eric Goulet will testify today, if he didn’t already do it, to the DC Council and is publicly calling for official investigations into Chancellor Ferebee and his staff’s conduct.
I new it! I mean, “I’ve heard it from teachers and principals” versus a school board member testimony in front of the DC council.
Is Ferebee making his secretary write supportive posts on DCUM? That low even for him and it’s a waste of his secretary’s time. Lol.
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I think the person you’re replying to may be affiliated with one of the admins publicly named in the letter, which clearly stated the flexibility is derived from in DC Municipal Regulations 2201.6 and has always been used in the district historically to defer kindergarten enrollment. This poster is clearly not telling the truth and is likely stirring up something to cover abuse of power by district officials.
If you want more proof, Eric Goulet will testify today, if he didn’t already do it, to the DC Council and is publicly calling for official investigations into Chancellor Ferebee and his staff’s conduct.
LOL I am definitely not in any way affiliated with the admins names or any admin.
Then why are you lying about kindergarten enrollment deferral policies? It was posted in the thread, on twitter, local websites. I hope it’s just ignorance.
DC lottery just sent a real nasty email to parents of kids on the waitlist with birthdays before Sept 30 for Kindergarten pulling them off waitlists for all DCPS schools.
Way more antagonistic than the way they've dealt with this in the past, which was to let the schools handle it individually.
Super aggressive move.
Really feel for families moving to DC from another area, from abroad, from the neighborhoods in Maryland and Virginia right next door....sheesh.
Anonymous wrote:DC lottery just sent a real nasty email to parents of kids on the waitlist with birthdays before Sept 30 for Kindergarten pulling them off waitlists for all DCPS schools.
Way more antagonistic than the way they've dealt with this in the past, which was to let the schools handle it individually.
Super aggressive move.
Really feel for families moving to DC from another area, from abroad, from the neighborhoods in Maryland and Virginia right next door....sheesh.
Anonymous wrote:DC lottery just sent a real nasty email to parents of kids on the waitlist with birthdays before Sept 30 for Kindergarten pulling them off waitlists for all DCPS schools.
Way more antagonistic than the way they've dealt with this in the past, which was to let the schools handle it individually.
Super aggressive move.
Really feel for families moving to DC from another area, from abroad, from the neighborhoods in Maryland and Virginia right next door....sheesh.
You know, sometimes being a jerk about things causes people to react in kind. Now you’ve ruined redshirting for everyone!
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I think the person you’re replying to may be affiliated with one of the admins publicly named in the letter, which clearly stated the flexibility is derived from in DC Municipal Regulations 2201.6 and has always been used in the district historically to defer kindergarten enrollment. This poster is clearly not telling the truth and is likely stirring up something to cover abuse of power by district officials.
If you want more proof, Eric Goulet will testify today, if he didn’t already do it, to the DC Council and is publicly calling for official investigations into Chancellor Ferebee and his staff’s conduct.
I new it! I mean, “I’ve heard it from teachers and principals” versus a school board member testimony in front of the DC council.
Is Ferebee making his secretary write supportive posts on DCUM? That low even for him and it’s a waste of his secretary’s time. Lol.
Well “DC Municipal Regutions 2201.6” doesn’t appear to cite to anything so …
Anonymous wrote:DC lottery just sent a real nasty email to parents of kids on the waitlist with birthdays before Sept 30 for Kindergarten pulling them off waitlists for all DCPS schools.
Way more antagonistic than the way they've dealt with this in the past, which was to let the schools handle it individually.
Super aggressive move.
Really feel for families moving to DC from another area, from abroad, from the neighborhoods in Maryland and Virginia right next door....sheesh.
Can you share the email? I assume you mean bdays AFTER Sept 30 not before?
Anonymous wrote:I agree that some of these posters show troubling mental health signs. Really surprised the lack of boundary awareness. We are talking about kids here and people are speculating wildly about special needs, IEP, what was approved, with absolutely no shred of evidence. Ultimately that’s a private matter, leave it to the school and parents.
The comments about taking pleasure in someone’s (a child, none the less!) misfortune were truly repugnant. You’ve got to have a massive chip on your shoulder to stoop so low.
The competition these parents imagine themselves to be in is truly disturbing. The kid starting kindergarten later won’t steal anyone spot at a coveted college or a job later on, life is not that deterministic.
Also the strident chest beating about how great of a mother a poster is for taking care of her special needs child, and judging everyone else by how they compare against how much she did for her kid. Are we competing on who sacrificed most for their kids now? That’s what it seems. The bragging and inquiring about whose kid is more advanced in math, that’s a whole next level of insane competitiveness.
Unfortunately these harpies are lost, there’s no relief in sight, because they think of themselves as heroine mothers and models to follow, the very voice of common sense.
Lol no. The issue is an entitled set of NW moms taking up ALL the air in the room to get their own way. That’s no way to run a school system and we have seen very recent examples of where catering to a coterie of “concerned moms” was disastrous.
Yes this. All of the opposition is because people who think rules don't apply to them are grating. But then the UNW moms create a bunch of straw man arguments and vehemently defend them. That feels like 50 percent of this thread now.
I know! The other 50% is “look how much I did for my child, why can’t you do the same?”
In short, striver mom gets her ivy (lol) hopes high when her kid is taking calculus in 10th grade, only to see them shattered by actual college admission results. Meanwhile, lower “stats” kid gets into UVA. Initially she can’t even comprehend it, but it finally dawn on her, the kid was redshirted, an unfair advantage that negated all her hard work throughout the years. All that kindergarten reading, the algebra in 6th, the tutoring, it was for nothing because her kid was the youngest in the grade, a massive handicap to those in the know.
So she does what any rational person would do, troll internet posting boards, seeking validation of her parenting skill and spewing venom on redshirted kids and their parents. It’s really cathartic at the end of the day, and much cheaper than therapy. Not as effective though, her rants are getting more and more unhinged.
This is a perfect example of a straw man argument . Thank you!
But you’ve been so forthcoming with sharing personal details in your life especially about giving parents advice on how to raise their kids.
For real though, what college did your kid go to? Because with all the advice you’re dishing out, forgive me, but I want to make sure you’re legit and the final outcome is worthy of paying attention to you. If it’s below William and Mary don’t say anything, we get it, I won’t push it further and you have my sympathy.
My kids are not in college yet but it’s clear you held back to game the system. You did it for your ego vs your kids. I could not care less the ranking and hope mine go to an affordable school so we can pay for college and grad school. Except in a few fields no one cares about rankings except someone like you.
You just proved the point we are making about people like you who are gaming the system. I feel for your kids given how competitive you are.
Why is it gaming the system to hold back a kid until he’s ready to enter kindergarten?
Don’t you want all the kids to do well?
Because they are bigger, stronger, taller, faster, start puberty early for their grade and have more developed brains than the age level kids in their grades. Those factors impact almost everything.
The physical traits only matter in sports and those are by age. The intellectual abilities are not as connected to age and more with learning.
I don’t believe it’s an advantage, but if you believe those things, why didn’t you redshirt you kid? I still don’t understand what the issue is if some parents want to advantage their kids and send them later. We don’t blink an eye at tutors and expensive private schools.
So, why did you hold back? No, intellectual abilities are partly due to IQ, partly hard work, baring any sn or learning disabilities. Older doesn't make you smarter or more intellectual. It makes you less intellectual as you are not with true peers and with younger peers with lower expectations. When expectations are lowered that's not smarter, that's gaming the system.
One of my kids is very short regardless. At 17 they are still very short. Should I have held them back 3-4 years to hope they'd grow more?
Some of us put a lot of effort into our children’s nutrition, I wonder why you couldn’t do the same, it’s not that hard. When they were young it was like a had another extra job making sure they always had home cooked nutritious meals. They’ve never had junk food or sugary drinks!
Consult with their pediatrician, we were advised three servings of dairy per day, and make sure they eat about 1 gram of protein a day per pound of body weight. That’s a lot of meat, eggs, fish. Don’t even think about restricting food amounts if it’s clean, teenager boys eat a lot! In 6th grade my kid grew from 5’1” to 5’6”, it was crazy to watch.
My kid doesn’t drink juice or any bad drinks and just milk and water. Of course we all cook. Even pack every school lunch. That has nothing to do with height. It is genetics.
Since you put so much effort into food, why didn’t you put the same into academics and extracurricular activities?
Maybe the issue is that the food does not taste good. Do they say they like it, see them eating it, or maybe throwing away secretly? Cook fresh instead of doing a large batch for the week. Only saying it because that’s what I did as a child and the portions were often too small. I was very skinny.
If the child is in the bottom 20 percentile of height, I’d look first at nutrition, especially if it’s a boy. Talk to an endocrinologist, do regular checkups, tell your concerns to the pediatrician. The “genetics” you’re talking about may be human growth hormone deficiency which is treatable.
Last, spend less time on forums biatching about redshirted kids and more on your child who seems to be in a state at terrible neglect.
Wow, read the room lady. You're doing nothing but turning fence sitters strongly against you.
So you can tell people how to raise their kids, opining about how to educate them when to send them to school, criticizing their choices etc, but when the favor is returned regarding the way you raise yours, that’s off the limits.
Hopefully you learned something, but I doubt. This energy is better spent on your child, instead of your imaginary fight with other parents, which frankly is only happening in your head. You have no agency over the entire matter.
I’m serious about the hormonal part though. You should check with their doctor.
NP but "when to send them to school" is a question of law, not opinion. Criticising people for breaking the law is not the same as assuming short kids are malnourished based on spite.
That’s not what I understood from Eric Goulet letter. There seems to be flexibility on when kids start kindergarten and there was abuse by district officials. The proposed solution was that kids start kindergarten in the fall.
Never assume to understand anything because Eric Goulet says it.
There is no flexibility on this other than what was provided to parents previously against policy by principals trying to curry favor.
I’d rather go by an official statement from a board of education member instead of “I’ve read it on DCUM “.
Unless you have a link to substantiate your claims.
I've heard it from teachers and principals. It's also literally the stated policy that people have quoted like 30 times on this post. Even so flexibility means there CAN be discretion from the school not there has to be because a parent wants it. Telling a parent no they can't unilaterally decided when to enroll their kids because vibes is not abuse by the admin.
Rep. Andy Ogles thinks you can amend the Constitution simply by passing a bill in the House. Elected representatives aren't always honest or all knowing.
Ok that’s what I thought. In one post you went from “there is no flexibility” to “there can be discretion from the school”. And it’s based on “I’ve heard it from teachers and principals”. Cmon now.
The reason I’m doubting what you’re saying is that redshirting is very common in US, 5-10% of all boys, maybe it’s even 20-40% for summer birthdays because nobody is going to redshirt their fall and winter kids. Haven’t seen statistics for DC but it can’t be that different.
The only place it’s common is in privates and it makes you wonder about their teaching practices and abilities or very wealthy communities. That’s why most in dc aren’t caring. I have a fall kid. I only know kids in private held back. None in our public.