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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m wondering the racial breakdown of red shirted kids. Because this seems like white foolishness to me. [/quote]

I think you’re largely right.  I only know one black kid (affluent family) who was redshirted.  All the rest are white families.[/quote]

"[Redshirting] is also significantly more common among white students – roughly 6 percent of white students are redshirted, compared to less than 3 percent of Asian students and 2 percent or less of black and Hispanic children."
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-16/how-much-does-it-benefit-a-child-to-delay-kindergarten-entry-for-a-year[/quote]

And what's the racial breakdown of being retained/held back?  that's right, disproportionaly African American.  https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2010/2010015/indicator4_17.asp

White kids get "redshirted" by their parents proactively; black kids get retained.  What we should actually be doing is making sure more black kids can be redshirted if necessary and placed in excellent PK programs.  [/quote]

This is bass-ackwards thinking. Redshirting is a point of privilege, because it costs money to be able to pay for an extra year of daycare or child care. Additionally, AA students are more likely to lack access to the resources that are predictors of readiness for early childhood education. What we need is MORE Pre-K, Head Start, etc. -- not delaying access to ECE.[/quote]

We're on the DCPS board, though.  A kid could be redshirted and kept in an excellent DCPS PK4 program. And, I actually don't think retaining kids in K is necessarily a terrible thing either as long as they get the support they need the 2nd year.  The point is there is little functional difference between redshirting and retaining in K - people just like to bag on the former because, I don't know, they think it's cheating. The race stuff here is really just a smoke screen.  [/quote]

But it's not redshirting if the school is recommending it. You can't go to PK-3, PK-4, and PK-4 again unless it's somehow school initiated, and I suspect it wouldn't be that way because of how the funding for PK comes in.  Delaying starting PK is a luxury.[/quote]

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