Redshirting August boy?
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Anonymous
It's the AAP. And your link doesn't talk about rich held back kids so you better go find another source for your dubious claims. It only talks about specific kids. From your source: Full-Day Kindergarten Programs includes a recommendation to offer full-day kindergarten programs to improve health prospects of low-income and racial and ethnic minority children And if its not about the kids, why do you even care? |
Anonymous
It impacts those of us who have young for the grade kids as the teachers and schools have unrealistic expectations for 5-year-olds, just like you do. |
Anonymous
Actually, it sounds like you need help given you neglected your child and ignored their social and emotional delays. |
Anonymous
Many school districts offer option programs. |
Anonymous
It’s not the same at all. You are clueless. And you are a total twat for repeatedly using “special needs” as some kind of put down for PP’s kids. STFU. |
Anonymous
Or “delays”… clearly the same poster over ad over. |
Anonymous
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The righteousness of some posters about the absoluteness of pre-ordained cut off by the state government is ridiculous.
States (and even counties) have different cut offs that are decided by local school officials. So a September 1 b day would go to K in one state and stay in preschool in another. An October (gasp) birthday would even stay in preschool in some states--oh the injustice of it all. Which state is the 'expert' on appropriate birthday cut offs and which kids go to school when? Hint- none of them. The cut off date is totally arbitrary to a point. If your kid is within range of some pre-ordained cut off date, your kid will be considered on time or not on time depending on what state you happen to settle in. I would not trust the state government with any decisions about my children's educational readiness or the experience they will have throughout 12 years of school. They are all about making policies and rules for scale and group management. Nobody should attempting to take the moral high ground here about the virtuousness of deciding to send their kid to K based on a government set timeline. Being born at midnight on August 31 does not equate to readiness 'just because...'. It would be ridiculous to say a twin born at 11:59 on 8/31 is ready and the other one born a few minutes later on 1/1 is not. It's all arbitrary to a point within a few months... |
Anonymous
Funny how you are not at all ashamed of showing how little you can actually read. |
Anonymous
+1. Also, what is APP? Did the anti-redshirting poster mean AAP? That’s funny |
Anonymous
I think there are two primary anti-redshirt posters in this thread. One is the absolutely nuts Natural Law lady, who outed herself earlier in the thread. I think that one doesn’t even have kids and based on what she says, should definitely never be anywhere close to children. The other is a grossly competitive mother who is actually sending her kid to public school, but who nonetheless remains profoundly obsessed with the admissions policies of private schools. Then there are a few who weigh in periodically but not nearly as much. For instance, there is the anti-redshirt PP from a few pages ago who flat-out said that she doesn’t think redshirting should be allowed except when she wants to do it; I have to say I appreciated that bald and openly hypocritical position (to be clear, I think all anti-shirters are hypocrites, but that one was more straightforward about the hypocrisy). They are all tremendously whiny. My kids aren’t redshirted; I read the redshirting threads because they are often classic DCUM entertainment because of how bizarre the anti-redshirt posters are. I think my favorite anti-redshirt poster has to be the one from a couple of years ago who threw an absolute screaming fit because her kindergartner was too small for the rented rides at her private school’s entirely optional spring fair and that was somehow the fault of the private school redshirting. Or something. I was never entirely clear on the logic from that one, but it was enormously entertaining. Natural law anti-redshirter is high on my list of memorable DCUM characters, though, and I was delighted to see her resurgence in this thread. Why anyone with any common sense whatsoever would look at these folks and think, “Why yes. That is the group I wish to be associated with” remains a mystery to me. 🤔 However, my cheap entertainment budget thanks you all very much! |
Anonymous
Sure, keep trying to mock my kid. It really makes you look even more foolish than you are, if that's even possible. Keep trying, troll. |
Anonymous
The anti redshirt nut considers herself right up there with the celebrated experts of the APP. She's a legend in her own warped mind. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
I’m down with APP. |
Anonymous
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My August son basically "failed" his entrance evaluation for first grade. The school said he wasn't ready, even though he was already reading. He was very shy and anxious, and kind of shut down during the evaluation. They recommended pre-first, something I didn't even know existed before that. At the time, I thought it was just a scam to get an extra year of $$ from us if we went to the school. In the end, we did it though, and it was easily the best thing for him. He did the pre-first year, then first grade was with many of those kids and most were within 3-6 months in terms of age. He wasn't the oldest, wasn't the youngest.
The class above him, which would have been his if we sent him right to first grade, turned out to be very clique-y and just not all that nice. My son's class had great kids and great parents. And we got an extra year with him before he moves away to college and beyond. He's in HS now and in hindsight, that pre-first year was one of the best decisions we made. |