Redshirting next year?

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what kindergarten will look like next year (recess? circle time? etc), and I'm nervous about the amount of people who redshirted this year making next year's cohort huge. Would it be crazy to redshirt next year? DC has a spring birthday but is tall, but has some speech disorders we're dealing with in speech therapy.

[Anonymous]

Why would you hold back? Recess is your priority? Keep your kid home about 3 more years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you hold back? Recess is your priority? Keep your kid home about 3 more years.

Recess is not a priority, just an example of how socially distanced learning isn't developmentally appropriate for K.

[Anonymous]

So you are talking about starting K at 6 years 4/5 months? Franky, I wouldnt.

My oldest sister's kids are much older than mine. One child has a September birthday; she started kindergarten at 4 going on 5 but at the end of the year the teacher recommended repeating bc she was so young and they did. She graduated high school in 2019 and is happy at college but she was SO over high school by senior year and felt like the other kids were silly, childish etc. Think of your future kid; I would not want to be turning 19 years old and still in high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you hold back? Recess is your priority? Keep your kid home about 3 more years.

Recess is not a priority, just an example of how socially distanced learning isn't developmentally appropriate for K.

There is always an excuse to hold back kids. Before it was the curriculum. Now its recess. Its perfectly appropriate. In K. kids need to learn to read, write and do basic math. You can easily help your child at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you are talking about starting K at 6 years 4/5 months? Franky, I wouldnt.

My oldest sister's kids are much older than mine. One child has a September birthday; she started kindergarten at 4 going on 5 but at the end of the year the teacher recommended repeating bc she was so young and they did. She graduated high school in 2019 and is happy at college but she was SO over high school by senior year and felt like the other kids were silly, childish etc. Think of your future kid; I would not want to be turning 19 years old and still in high school.

A September kid is not that young. They are starting school at age five. Plenty of our kids did great starting at that age. You don't start kids in K at 6.5. They will be made fun of as you are describing.

[Anonymous]

Not with a spring birthday. August or September, maybe...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are talking about starting K at 6 years 4/5 months? Franky, I wouldnt.

My oldest sister's kids are much older than mine. One child has a September birthday; she started kindergarten at 4 going on 5 but at the end of the year the teacher recommended repeating bc she was so young and they did. She graduated high school in 2019 and is happy at college but she was SO over high school by senior year and felt like the other kids were silly, childish etc. Think of your future kid; I would not want to be turning 19 years old and still in high school.

A September kid is not that young. They are starting school at age five. Plenty of our kids did great starting at that age. You don't start kids in K at 6.5. They will be made fun of as you are describing.

Yeah I know of parents who redshirted their Feb birthday kids this year. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I felt mine was not a candidate for redshirting this year but for childcare reasons I have her enrolled in private K because I couldn’t supervise distance learning. I personally am happy with the private K at a daycare. Idk if that’s an option for you.

[Anonymous]

He is tall and will be almost 51/2 to start K on time. No I would not hold back. I might consider homeschooling K for a year then joining in in 1st but I would not redshirt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He is tall and will be almost 51/2 to start K on time. No I would not hold back. I might consider homeschooling K for a year then joining in in 1st but I would not redshirt.

That's probably the best option. Hopefully not that many people actually redshirted this year and most just homeschooled or withdrew and sent their kindergarteners to private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is tall and will be almost 51/2 to start K on time. No I would not hold back. I might consider homeschooling K for a year then joining in in 1st but I would not redshirt.

That's probably the best option. Hopefully not that many people actually redshirted this year and most just homeschooled or withdrew and sent their kindergarteners to private schools.

Our zoned school in ACPS is dual immersion, though, so I'd worry about him being really behind. I don't speak any Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you are talking about starting K at 6 years 4/5 months? Franky, I wouldnt.

My oldest sister's kids are much older than mine. One child has a September birthday; she started kindergarten at 4 going on 5 but at the end of the year the teacher recommended repeating bc she was so young and they did. She graduated high school in 2019 and is happy at college but she was SO over high school by senior year and felt like the other kids were silly, childish etc. Think of your future kid; I would not want to be turning 19 years old and still in high school.

Oh, come on. I was SO over high school by senior year. The other kids were silly and childish. I was dying to get to college.

I started school when I was 4 and was 17 when I started college.

That's just what high school is like for some people. A year does not make that much of a difference at that end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He is tall and will be almost 51/2 to start K on time. No I would not hold back. I might consider homeschooling K for a year then joining in in 1st but I would not redshirt.

That's probably the best option. Hopefully not that many people actually redshirted this year and most just homeschooled or withdrew and sent their kindergarteners to private schools.

It would be very surprising if a greater number of people than usual didn't redshirt this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So you are talking about starting K at 6 years 4/5 months? Franky, I wouldnt.

My oldest sister's kids are much older than mine. One child has a September birthday; she started kindergarten at 4 going on 5 but at the end of the year the teacher recommended repeating bc she was so young and they did. She graduated high school in 2019 and is happy at college but she was SO over high school by senior year and felt like the other kids were silly, childish etc. Think of your future kid; I would not want to be turning 19 years old and still in high school.

Oh, come on. I was SO over high school by senior year. The other kids were silly and childish. I was dying to get to college.

I started school when I was 4 and was 17 when I started college.

That's just what high school is like for some people. A year does not make that much of a difference at that end.

+1. I ended up turning 19 in the fall of my senior year because I took a year to do a sports development program. Other than dating being slightly more awkward since I was older than the guys in my year, I don't think it made any difference.