Here's what I don't understand about red shirting
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Anonymous
| This came up on the other threads but was never really answered. Now that people are starting to red shirt kids with spring and even winter birthdays, in order to get an extra year on the kids routinely being red shirted with fall and late summer birthdays, what does that do to the kids with the fall birthdays? It just sets everything back a year. Does that mean they're going to start red shirting two years in a row? |
Anonymous
| Red shirting is not nearly as prevalent as this forum makes it seem |
Anonymous
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Don't believe the exaggerations you read here, OP.
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Anonymous
| People have been redshirting for sixty years. It is not getting earlier and earlier with spring and winter birthdays being redshirted. |
Anonymous
+1. I sent my late September and late August birthday girls on time, and there are other classmates around their age. |
Anonymous
This is what people are claiming though. |
Anonymous
| I don't think it's getting earlier. And I'd bet it's concentrated in upper income areas, where some families don't have to factor in childcare expenses. I'm in CCMD and my teenage boy has an early April birthday. All his same-grade friends are older than him, and his best friend in private was redshirted w/a January birthday. That was a decade ago. |
Anonymous
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I swear people only think in the moment, because if they thought longer term they would realize their child will be a 20 or 21-year-old HS senior.
We didn't red shirt our child with the late-summer birthday, and she will graduate HS at 17. It will give her an earlier start on finishing her undergrad degree by 22, and grad school by 25. I'd rather help her get an earlier start on her career rather than kindergarten. |
Anonymous
| ^^ rather than start her late in kindergarten^^ |
Anonymous
| The only kid I know that was redshirted with a Spring birthday was a preemie. |
Anonymous
| I pointed this out already in one of the others threads but you can’t redshirt two years. The kid must start at 6. |
Anonymous
It’s concentrated in areas where people can afford to send their kids to a great preschool and/or SAH with a mom who has a high level of education and enough money to outsource a lot of household tasks that don’t directly benefit her child/children. They aren’t worried about missing a year of school (the kids aren’t), don’t have to worry about early drop out, which is what all of the articles talking about redshirted kids doing worse are talking about (doesn’t happen in this demographic), and generally have no negative effects, only positives. You can’t blame the rich for doing it, and you can’t blame everyone else for being upset about it. |
Anonymous
| I can think of a March boy and a May boy I know who are old for the year. One of the boys moved to the US in elementary school and didn't speak English. I assume that was why he was placed in that grade, or maybe the cutoffs in his old country were different. The other boy has developmental issues and disabilities. In neither case does it make any difference to me or would affect what I'd do with my kid. It's just not an issue. |
Anonymous
| Why do you care what other people do? That's no way to go through life. |
Anonymous
They don't have to stay 6 through the entire school year though. I do know a couple of February/March birthdays that were redshirted. |