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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think DCUMs anti-redshirt contingent largely consists of crazy hypocrites, having seen many of these threads. These are not rational people.[/quote]

Hateful nut jobs with nothing better to do than worry about what other families are doing. 
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What's hypocritical about sending your kid on time and wishing that other parents would do the same?  I put my money where my mouth is--my kid's birthday is very close to the cutoff, and she went on time.  So far as I can tell (based on classroom birthdays), so did her classmates.  Which is good--it means that the teacher is dealing with kids within a one-year, not an 18-month, age range, and can have developmentally appropriate expectations for the class in terms of behavior and academic abilities.  Seems pretty rational to me.  [/quote]

Exactly.  These decisions don't exist in a vacuum.  When my kid has an April birthday and is in class with kids born the MAY before - as in almost a year older than he is, and a year and a half older than the non-redshirted August kid - it's crappy (and will embarrass your kids later on).[/quote]

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