Redshirting

[Anonymous]

In Northern Virginia public schools, in a normal year how many children in your kid's classes were redshirted? I'm not asking anyone's opinion on the merits of redshirting, just trying to understand what percentage of kids are normally held back and how many of those are birthdays other than August/September.

[Anonymous]

In my 4th grader’s whole grade I can think of two redshirted August birthdays and several summer/September birthdays who went on time. I don’t think my second grader has ever had anyone in her class who was redshirted. She has several young August birthday kids in her grade. Two summer birthdays kids in previously in her grade did repeat first grade though.

[Anonymous]

My kindergartener has 2 this year - one late September girl and one mid-summer boy.

[Anonymous]

I think in my daughter's grade there was one.

[Anonymous]

FCPS - these are estimates. Grade of appx 60 - appx 6 kids or so redshirted I would say.

Appx 10 kids eligible for AAP and about 1 of those were redshirted.

I have 2 kids in ES now and I’m trying to say this estimate is about true for each of them.

[Anonymous]

It is creepy the way some of you track this. Do you get a copy of the class rosters or something? Keep a spreadsheet? Memorize birthday invites?

[Anonymous]

My son had 1 redsirted boy in his K class, and my daughter had 1 redshirted boy in her 2nd grade class. It is amusing (or distressing), but everyone know exactly who is redshirted.

[Anonymous]

I would say probably 5?

[Anonymous]

5 out of how many? That seems like a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is creepy the way some of you track this. Do you get a copy of the class rosters or something? Keep a spreadsheet? Memorize birthday invites?

I sat there 2 weeks ago as the teacher read the full birth date (month, day, year) of every child as written by their parents in a letter to each child during a synchronous DL session.Otherwise I wouldn't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5 out of how many? That seems like a lot.

Like 90-100.

[Anonymous]

a few spring/summer birthdays per class.

Pretty much without fail the kids who are generally disliked or barely tolerated are always the youngest, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son had 1 redsirted boy in his K class, and my daughter had 1 redshirted boy in her 2nd grade class. It is amusing (or distressing), but everyone know exactly who is redshirted.

This just isn't true. Most people do not care one way or another if kids are red-shirted or not. Its just you and possibly some of your like-minded "friends".

I don't know any teachers who think red-shirting is a bad thing. Only parents who are overly invested in whether other kids are older than their kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:a few spring/summer birthdays per class.

Pretty much without fail the kids who are generally disliked or barely tolerated are always the youngest, though.

I'll be interested to see if this holds true for my youngest-in-grade DC.

Was true for my youngest-in-grade sibling some years, though not all.

[Anonymous]

Teacher in loudoun: about half