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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people I take issue with are those who redshirt in order to give their kid the "advantage" of being the oldest/biggest/most mature/etc kid in class.  Those are the people in a race to the bottom, in my opinion.

That's different from the argument that all kids should start K at, say, 6, instead of 5.  Assuming you're working within an annual grade framework, you're still always going to have an oldest kid and a youngest kid in class, and all of the challenges associated with having kids nearly a full year apart operating under the same curriculum.  But at least you could argue here that even the youngest kid was "ready" to start K at the start of the school year.

One is wanting to redshirt because you want your kid to rule over all of the others; the other is in favor of redshirting everyone for the sake of community.[/quote]

There are very, very few people who do that.  People redshirt because their child is developmentally delayed; lags in social skills; and their teachers or therapists recommend it.  Kids repeat K because they're behind on reading and need an extra year.  The idea that there's some kind of rampaging sector redshirting in public schools to give their child a leg up is a myth, and it belies that the anti-redshirters are the ones obsessed with the relative status of their own child.  [/quote]

That's definitely not the impression I'm getting from reading this thread or the thread this is a spinoff of.  Of course hold your kid back if s/he is developmentally delayed or a therapist recommends it.  But most of the people who have redshirted their kids on these threads seem to have come to their own conclusion about the readiness of their child.  Which, fine, is within their rights, but it sounds more like they are concerned with their kid's relative status rather than actual ability to follow the classroom curriculum and learn from (and teach!) peers.[/quote]

I recommend you don't get your "impression" about how people make these complex decisions based on rants on DCUM.  There are very few people (even on DCUM) who redshirt for no reason other than to make their kid older.  [/quote]

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