Redshirting consequences at Lafayette
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Anonymous
So why didn't these families discuss delaying kindergarten with the school a year ago? Cooperative effort? Really? Nope. |
Anonymous
Truly a wonder no one wanted to deal with these families for an extra year with their totally charming personalities. |
Anonymous
If a child has special needs they should be required to provide an evaluation and therapies to support those needs. A typical developing child, no. |
Anonymous
This. All of this. They didn't ask they assumed and then they assumed that even after they attacked the principal publicly for other things she'd be happy to give them what they wanted or at least if she didn't DCPS would. It didn't happen and now they are losing their minds and, if it's them on this board, saying some truly repulsive stuff. |
Anonymous
This is some Pollyanna nonsense. Redshirting is a thing in sports precisely because being a year older gives a huge advantage. Looking for an academic edge (over others, though they don’t say the quiet part aloud) is why some parents do it for school. |
Anonymous
These people are comically horrible! No surprise at all that DCPS wants to punish them now (by... making them follow rules). So satisfying to see this all play out, to be honest. |
Anonymous
That's the thing -- they aren't being punished! They are just being treated like everyone else and it's driving them out of their minds. It feels like punishment because they are so accustomed to being catered to that NOT being catered to feels like discrimination or something. It's wild. Meanwhile, when their kids start 1st at Lafayette (assuming they don't actually decide to go private or move, which are their only moves left), DCPS will bend over backwards to help make sure their kids catch up on anything they missed in K. Which probably isn't much, because these kids have been attending good preschools that almost certainly already gave this kid much of the kindergarten curriculum. |
Anonymous
You obviously know nothing about sports. That's not even why college athletes redshirt. They generally only get four years of eligibility. If you're trying to make it to the pros, it may not make sense to burn a year of eligibility sitting on the bench if it's clear you're not going to play because you're not good enough. But sitting out that year, not officially being on the team, doesn't make you any more attractive as a prospect the following year. It's still just as possible that someone new will come along, who is younger than you, who will also be better than you. Redshirting can mark you as a marginal talent. |
Anonymous
I am convinced this must be a troll account at this point. But just to point out a factual error, redshirts are absolutely officially on the team. They do not necessarily count against scholarship limits but they are absolutely officially on the team. |
Anonymous
The reason you would spend your first year on the bench and not, say, your 4th is because for non-superstars, coaches often want them to gain a year of physical maturity, because — gasp — being a year older gives you a comparative advantage physically. Like you are tiptoeing sooooo close to the truth, but can’t bring yourself to say it. Also, the whole reason there are only 5 years of eligibility (normally), is to stop multi-year redshirting for non-injury precisely because folks would otherwise do it. We do agree that if your kid was a superstar, you wouldn’t feel the need to hold him back… but here you are. |
Anonymous
If you know these families, you can definitely pick a few of them out on this thread by the writing and how they’ve drafted complaints in the past. It’s not hard. |
Anonymous
Have you....been to a children's soccer game? Or to a school classroom? There is zero correlation between a child's age and how good they are at math or at driving the ball down the field. The imagined benefits of redshirting seem a little fanciful. |
Anonymous
? Are you serious? Of course there are tangible benefits to a child’s age and their performance in a specific grade or in a sport. This is especially true when the child is younger…say…kindergarten or first grade age…Kinda ridiculous to think otherwise tbh |
Anonymous
People generally cite emotional maturity as the reason to redshirt. Which I think can be a very valid reason to do it -- some kids really are not ready to sit still, follow directions, resolve minor disputes with peers, and other things that are expected in a K classroom but not at the pre-K level. But we should be careful with this, because as many posters have noted, Kindergarten expectations have increased in recent years, with the grade becoming more academic than it used to be. A generation ago, many K programs were not even full time, and they more resembled PK, with more time dedicated to free play, and lighter academics delivered largely through fun interactions like songs and games. It would have been unusual to see a classroom of K kids listening to a lesson on phonics or doing a math worksheet. Now those things are quite standard. So what's the danger with redshirting? It further shifts expectations for ALL the students in the classroom, when already expectations are really pushing the limits of what is appropriate even for children who are 5.5 or close to 6 at the start of the year. The more 6 year olds you have in a K classroom, the more likely teachers are to view it as "normal" for kids to be be quiet, compliant, less prone to tears, etc. But actually it is typical for kindergarteners to struggle with those things, and traditionally the whole point of kindergarten was to help kids develop those skills so that they would be set up for success in 1st. So allowing very emotionally immature kids to be redshirted occasionally shouldn't be an issue, as it will bring those kids more into line with other children in the classroom. But allowing broad discretion by parents results in too many kids being redshirted, which leads to classrooms that lean older, which leads to higher expectations from teachers, which then means that kids who are not even young for the grade (but now are young for the classroom) and who have no real maturity issues, are suddenly viewed as problems simply because they are not as mature as the average kid in class. All of which is why redshirting decisions should be made in collaboration with the school, not independently by parents (and not by private preschools who have a major incentive to recommend redshirting -- it means they get an extra year of tuition from that family), and should only be done in more extreme situations and not when a child is simply at the lower end of normal for kindergarten maturity. If you are within the range of normal for the age, you should start on time. |
Anonymous
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