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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]Eh.  Not always so obvious.  I have a kid with an August 30 birthday in a district with a September 1 cutoff.  She's very emotionally immature, has trouble sitting still, and tracks socially with kids a year younger.  I sent her "on time" and she has spent the year as the classroom behavior problem.  I suspect the K teacher would have preferred that we hold her back because it would have actually narrowed the maturity gap in the classroom.

Just because your kid is mature enough to succeed in K at newly 5, doesn't mean all kids are.[/quote]

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