Is a march birthday too old to redshirt?

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Anonymous wrote:This actually pisses me off as the parent of an August baby that you think putting a kid a year and a half older in her grade (without diagnosed special needs) is acceptable.

WHY? I have a September child and could not care less kids are that much older. I wanted my kid the youngest vs. oldest. If my kid can hold their own with kids that much older, especially academic, I'm very proud of him.

It's not about you and what you are proud of, it's about your child. And it's about having 20 year olds in high school with 13/14 year old freshmen.

A kid with a March birthday, who started kindergarten at 6 instead of 5, will graduate from high school having just turned 19. So no, it's not about that.

Regardless -- I was 17 my senior year of high school. I didn't even turn 18 until my freshman year of college, which means like PP, I wasn't 19 until sophomore year of college. That seems much more appropriate. I can't even imagine having a 19 year old MAN in the same high school as a 13 year old barely teenaged freshman.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, as the mom of a young 5 year old who we are starting in school at the appropriate time, I am SO SICK OF REDSHIRTERS. It started in pre-K -- there were enough kids redshirted that my child's preK-4 class was literally 50% 5 year olds who had already been through that class before. They were really disruptive and I can just see it getting worse in late elementary/early middle school, for example when their hormones hit super early compared to the rest of the class. Just awful. Start your kids on time.

This was my experience, too. In a k class at a religious school, 8 out of 19 kids were red shirted (mostly boys). My child with a January birthday seemed younger, smaller and academically behind. The older kids were more boisterous and, because there were so many of them, typical kindergarteners didn't fit in. These kids dominated PE and recess and the younger kids were pushed around.

We had this experience last year in PRE-K!! The 5 year olds were definitely ready for K, and too old to still be in preschool, yet their parents held them back. It was a 15 kid class, we knew the kids, we knew their parents. We knew they would have been fine in K.

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Anonymous wrote:This actually pisses me off as the parent of an August baby that you think putting a kid a year and a half older in her grade (without diagnosed special needs) is acceptable.

WHY? I have a September child and could not care less kids are that much older. I wanted my kid the youngest vs. oldest. If my kid can hold their own with kids that much older, especially academic, I'm very proud of him.

It's not about you and what you are proud of, it's about your child. And it's about having 20 year olds in high school with 13/14 year old freshmen.

A kid with a March birthday, who started kindergarten at 6 instead of 5, will graduate from high school having just turned 19. So no, it's not about that.

DP, but March to June isn't "just" and I went on time and turned 19 as a *sophomore* in college.
I don't like the rules, but the rules in the DMV area seem to be you can hold your kid back for a whole year if you choose.

OK. The kid will graduate from high school at 19 years and 2 months. Which is 10 months (5/6 of a year) less than 20 years.

Thank you PP for demonstrating that even the people lowest on the academic scale can do math if they try hard enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Although I am not a fan of red shirting, I do think it's funny that people are calling your boy born in March too old to redshirt when most people on dcum would defend the right of a boy born 3 months later to be redshirted.

Everyone send your kids on time and we'll all have nice, one year cohorts.

This. I really wish there was a redshirting cutoff, so that we don't end up creating classes where some students can potentially be 2 years older than their peers. Where do we draw the line?

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Anonymous wrote:I really think people should get a doctor's note to redshirt. They are doing this in CA now.

+1 Totally agree.

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Anonymous wrote:I really think people should get a doctor's note to redshirt. They are doing this in CA now.

+1 Totally agree.

+2. It is out of control. Send your kids on time!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:This actually pisses me off as the parent of an August baby that you think putting a kid a year and a half older in her grade (without diagnosed special needs) is acceptable.

WHY? I have a September child and could not care less kids are that much older. I wanted my kid the youngest vs. oldest. If my kid can hold their own with kids that much older, especially academic, I'm very proud of him.

It's not about you and what you are proud of, it's about your child. And it's about having 20 year olds in high school with 13/14 year old freshmen.

This....

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, as the mom of a young 5 year old who we are starting in school at the appropriate time, I am SO SICK OF REDSHIRTERS. It started in pre-K -- there were enough kids redshirted that my child's preK-4 class was literally 50% 5 year olds who had already been through that class before. They were really disruptive and I can just see it getting worse in late elementary/early middle school, for example when their hormones hit super early compared to the rest of the class. Just awful. Start your kids on time.

This was my experience, too. In a k class at a religious school, 8 out of 19 kids were red shirted (mostly boys). My child with a January birthday seemed younger, smaller and academically behind. The older kids were more boisterous and, because there were so many of them, typical kindergarteners didn't fit in. These kids dominated PE and recess and the younger kids were pushed around.

We had this experience last year in PRE-K!! The 5 year olds were definitely ready for K, and too old to still be in preschool, yet their parents held them back. It was a 15 kid class, we knew the kids, we knew their parents. We knew they would have been fine in K.

Happened in my kids competitive private as well. 4 of 14 spring birthdays went on time. My child seemed "behind" at the start of K, he's a third kid, wasn't reading like his sibs were at that point and he did beautifully. I'd rather that my child be pushed and challenged by his peers so that he can develop a love of working hard and striving to do his best. Fluffing it all up for him by artificially manipulating his grade for age wouldn't have helped anyone.