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[quote=Anonymous]My husband and I have a son who will be turning 5 in the first week of October this year. He should be going to Kindergarten this year, but at my husband's insistence, he was redshirted and won't be going until next year, when he's almost 6. When the idea of redshirting came up several months ago, I was absolutely against it, because I believed it was cheating. I told my husband over and over again how unfair it would be to our son's classmates if they had to compete with someone with a year of experience on them. But since my husband is the breadwinner, he ultimately won, so our son will be in preK for another year.

It's too late to enroll him in K this year, and I've accepted it. However, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and have come to the realization that this won't be cheating as long as our son doesn't enter competitions, such as running for class president and valedictorian, sports, applying for top colleges, etc. I have proposed to my husband that we don't let our son enter any competitions, play sports(unless he can play with kids his age instead of kids in his grade), or apply to any prestigious colleges, public or private. This way, our son's age-appropriate classmates will always have a fighting chance to win these school competitions. However, that's still not good enough for my husband. He thinks our son should be allowed to enter whatever competition he wants, even though it's going to kill many dreams for those who play fair. He just doesn't seem to understand that winning a competition against kids a year younger than you isn't anything to be proud of.[/quote]

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