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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you always tell why a kid was red-shirted if you don’t know them well?[/quote]

Some people can.  They can also see through your BS “excuses.”  See the other thread on this.  [/quote]

[b]My, my. Sooo angry. Fall birthdays here.[/b] Just wondering how everyone is always so certain why another parent did red-shirt when they don’t even know the kid.  And of course a stranger knows much better than a parent, don’t you agree?  [/quote]

So then you have no idea what it's like in our shoes, as parents of children who turn 5 in July or August, starting K with kids who turned 5 LAST summer, and are now more than a full year older than them, and teasing them on the playground for being babyish and not wanting to play them them.  I'm not worried about academics for my son I'm worried about the social aspect of him being picked on for being the youngest, smallest, and least socially mature boy in a class with kids who were held back, are over a year older than him, and then pick on him for being small![/quote]

I just don’t understand why you would put your child in this situation.  [/quote]

Spoken like someone who has zero clue what it's like to be not sending your kid to privates.  You can't just arbitrarily decide your 5 year old wont' start kindergarten.  The truant officers will come knocking. The people who do it send their kids to prrivate settings before entering K [/quote]

My DC is now in college, so things may have changed, but when they were scheduled to go to kindergarten we felt they needed an extra year.  MCPS at the time just had us fill out a short form  and automatically let us postpone the entry into K.  DC did attend 1/2 day preschool for that year, but I don't remember it being a requirement.

For those rabid anti-red-shirters, the cut-off at that point was significantly later than it is now.  DC would have been one of the youngest with a fall birthday and MCPS apparently felt that age was too young because they moved the cut-off date up.  There were also other issues involved which we coordinated with the preschool teachers, the doctor, and other specialists.  In school, despite being older, DC was frequently a target of bullies, rather than the bully.  I had other parents contacting me because their (younger) children were upset at how my child was being treated.

My child, while academically advanced, needed that extra year.  Fellow classmates were far better served by having DC be the oldest kid in the class than the youngest.  You don't know what issues another child may have (and frankly, it's none of your business), but you need to recognize that parents know their child better than you do.  Any parent who chooses to redshirt does so knowing that it has pros and cons and probably agonizes over the choice.  While theoretically they may exist,  I have never actually encountered any parent who chooses to redshirt so their child will have a competitive 
edge getting into gifted programs, college, etc.[/quote]

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