Reply to How common is redshirting in APS and FCPS?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "How common is redshirting in APS and FCPS?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Red shirting is not a new phenomenon.  People have been doing this for 30-40 years (that I'm aware of - I have teachers in my family and kids that "started K late").  Relatively middle-middle class family.  We also did this with two DS.

Most teachers will say it can't hurt, and if you're unsure, to do it.  [/quote]

I'm 40 and the only kids who were held back were the ones who failed the grade.  We have a fall kid and we sent him early.  He also does sports.  Sports go by age, not grade so being younger has its advantages.  Kids who start the sport younger clearly have an advantage.  Mine started it about 2 years later and is much slower but catching up.  Most of the really good kids have private coaches as well, which we started to do.  There is usually more to it all once you actually look into it.  It makes no sense to hold kids back.[/quote]

Thanks for your completely uniformed opinion.  Nobody cares that your fall kid was ready and did great. Those of us considering redshirting do it because there's a specific reason for concern.  And personally I've never met anyone whose concern was limited to sports (either way).  BTW part of the idea behind redshirting is to prevent kids from failing the grade later on.  Doesn't necessarily always work out that way and the data may not support it, but the REASON some people redshirt is to give the child more time to be ready for kindergarten, which is universally understood to be more "rigorous" than 35 years ago when you were in K.  [/quote]

Not that the PP was totally accurate in their views, but the original poster did not have specific reasons for concern other than "my kid might be younger than his classmates." This was an early post in this thread: [b]DS has been able to do all of the tasks listed on the checklists since he was 3 and is mature for his age. He is bored with pre-k and is more than ready to go to kindergarten.[/b]

And I have family in CA that "redshirted" mainly because of sports, so in some communities it's very common.

Redshirting is a never-ending spiral. People want to give their kid every advantage so they wait to send their September kids... then their August kids... pretty soon people are wondering if they should send their May kid. In the meantime, the parents of the September kid that is perfectly ready for K suddenly second guess because while they're not explicitly looking to give their kid an advantage, they certainly don't want to DISadvantage him.

someone's got to be the youngest. If your kid is ready, send him and hope for the best. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics