The great redshirting swindle of 2020

[Anonymous]

I think it’s hilarious all the insecure parents that are getting tricked into paying an extra year of tuition by preschools that are starting extra preK or junior K Or K classes this year. You all realize that these places aren’t looking out for you and your kid when they recommend redshirting, right? They lost a lot of money this spring and summer and need to make it up somehow. You’re just easy, gullible targets!

[Anonymous]

You have a point. If parents are going to send their kids into a germ factory, it should be one which moves them along in their formal education.

[Anonymous]

Completely agree. A preschool teacher isn't an evaluator and cannot predict the future so them saying hold back is for them, not your child.

[Anonymous]

I don’t have a rising kindergartner, but if I did, I’d redshirt. Online learning with my kindergartner this past spring was absolutely miserable for everyone involved. Not an experience I’d choose if I had any other options. And this is coming from someone who always quietly judged redshirting parents in the past.

[Anonymous]

Yes, you definitely know better what to do for all children than the parents of an individual child and that child's pediatrician and teachers.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know. If I had a kid in preschool, I might have them repeat the year in preschool and just go straight to 1st next year. They would probably still learn more if they had a good preschool teacher than DL. So not really redshirting, but doing an extra year still. I’m pretty sure in VA kindergarten isn’t required.

[Anonymous]

I have a rising k and am spending most of my time these days contemplating redshirting. And I am not someone who would be considering it under other circumstances. This is a nuts situation that we can essentially get our kids out of entirely (probably) with an extra year of preschool. The cost is hard but we work full time and I honestly have no idea how we would manage to have her home with us all day everyday and teach her K via the online tools. It is super overwhelming

[Anonymous]

Haha!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a rising k and am spending most of my time these days contemplating redshirting. And I am not someone who would be considering it under other circumstances. This is a nuts situation that we can essentially get our kids out of entirely (probably) with an extra year of preschool. The cost is hard but we work full time and I honestly have no idea how we would manage to have her home with us all day everyday and teach her K via the online tools. It is super overwhelming

If your child is on track I would keep them in preschool and then just enter 1st next year. Just focus on supplementing reading and you’ll be fine. Or enroll in kindergarten in the spring if things are looking better.

[Anonymous]

I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a rising k and am spending most of my time these days contemplating redshirting. And I am not someone who would be considering it under other circumstances. This is a nuts situation that we can essentially get our kids out of entirely (probably) with an extra year of preschool. The cost is hard but we work full time and I honestly have no idea how we would manage to have her home with us all day everyday and teach her K via the online tools. It is super overwhelming

If your child is on track I would keep them in preschool and then just enter 1st next year. Just focus on supplementing reading and you’ll be fine. Or enroll in kindergarten in the spring if things are looking better.

My kid has been home with a nanny. So for us preschool would, all by itself, be a new and stimulating environment. It is very tempting. DH and I are, at the moment, planning to try it out and pull her and switch to preschool if its unsustainable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

You don’t think preschools are trying to bank on insecure parents? I know far more parents this year than any other year who have said “Larla’s teacher doesn’t think she’s ready for kindergarten anyway....” than I have ever heard before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

+1

So we’ll be like most of Europe and start school around 6-7.

Better redshirt than deal with the sh*t show the public schools (and most schools) will be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you must be really insecure to be faulting parents for redshirting during a pandemic.

Right? People lose their dang mind about redshirting. Make decisions for your own kids and let other people make decisions for theirs. If I had a rising kindergartner who has a summer birthday you bet your booty I’ll be letting them spend another year in preschool. Kindergartners just can’t learn via zoom.

[Anonymous]

It’s about childcare. If there was somewhere else to leave their 5 year old all day they would.