Can a parent hold back a child in K due to immaturity

[Anonymous]

My friend seems to think one can. Just by requesting it. I had no idea. I have heard of the term ‘red shirting’ but isn’t that before schools starts. This kid is already in a private K slated to go to 1st grade. Granted he is small in size, born in August and is immature but still.

[Anonymous]

Your friend is wrong. You can’t do so unless it’s special needs and you would need documentation. Correct, you may just start K late but once they are in, private or public, they have to follow the natural progression.

[Anonymous]

In our DCPS I've known this to happen even later than K at the parent's request. They do have to get the school on board though.

[Anonymous]

In private? Usually.

[Anonymous]

If he’s in private K, does the public school system even know? Couldn’t he just pretend the kid was in pre-k (or moving in to the area) and redshirting?

[Anonymous]

Probably wouldn't be too hard to convince most schools to let a kid repeat K if they were young and immature. The last thing most schools want is to reduce opportunities for educational success unnecessarily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend seems to think one can. Just by requesting it. I had no idea. I have heard of the term ‘red shirting’ but isn’t that before schools starts. This kid is already in a private K slated to go to 1st grade. Granted he is small in size, born in August and is immature but still.

I meant slated to continue with private first grade.

[Anonymous]

I would think private would love the extra year of $$.

[Anonymous]

In a private school, your friend can do exactly that.

Now that it’s confirmed you can commence with judging her. From your tone, it seems like that’s the plan?

[Anonymous]

It's not uncommon in both public and private, especially for kids who are already young for the grade. The school has to agree that it's the right course of action, but I know two families who've done it recently in public where it was NBD. In both cases, there were both maturity and academic concerns but the schools were okay with moving the kids ahead. Parents requested that they repeat K and schools were fine with that too. I imagine it's different if there are no concerns, but presumably OP's friend must have some. She'll just have to see if the school shares them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In private? Usually.

I can think of 4 kids in our private K held back to do K there again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your friend is wrong. You can’t do so unless it’s special needs and you would need documentation. Correct, you may just start K late but once they are in, private or public, they have to follow the natural progression.

You don’t know what you are talking about. Perhaps you should have been held back a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a private school, your friend can do exactly that.

Now that it’s confirmed you can commence with judging her. From your tone, it seems like that’s the plan?

Busted! You’ve got OP’s number, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your friend is wrong. You can’t do so unless it’s special needs and you would need documentation. Correct, you may just start K late but once they are in, private or public, they have to follow the natural progression.

Of course you can hold your own kid back.
If it’s a private school it’s usually their suggestion. If they don’t you just sit down and talk to them about it.
If they don’t agree you could pull him out of that school and place him in another K to repeat. Or you could Homeschool him for K for a year (same for public school - take him out & place him in a private K to repeat).

[Anonymous]

Depends where they live.
Most places you can redshirt for any or no reason.