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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can not compare black kids being retained to not red shirting. Come on people. [/quote]

Why not?  It's pretty much impossible to distinguish between redshirting and retaining in K.  The kids who got retained in K are without a doubt kids who would have been redshirted if their parents had the same knowledge base as more affluent parents.  Luckily I think it works out to be the same because we're in a strong school with a strong K program. But it's silly to claim that when a white parent redshirts for PK that's some kind of rulebreaking, but when a black kid gets retained because his reading is not progressing, that's OK because the school does it.  [/quote]

I really doubt this.  The majority of kids who are redshirted would have been just fine in K (assuming everyone in the class was the appropriate age).[/quote]

What's your basis for that? There's a lot of research showing that being young for the grade results in ADHD diagnoses.  And the point of discussing retention is that there are kids who go *on time* to K who are assessed by the school as needing an extra year.  So clearly, they were NOT ok "going on time." [/quote]

Also for my n of 1: the kid I decided NOT to red shirt is doing very well academically, struggling socially.  It breaks my heart and I wonder if I prioritized the wrong thing.  I'm hoping he catches up, but I'm not sure.  [/quote]

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