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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a July birthday in a NYC private and everyone is older. I think redshirting is ridiculous in so many respects and unfair.

They do just fine in public which lacks the redshirting. [/quote]

Why do you pay to send your child to a school you think operates unfairly? That makes literally no sense, especially because you think everyone does fine in public. [/quote]

Reading comprehension is not your strong suit.[/quote]

Okay, so why do you pay for a private school you think is so unfair? Why can’t you answer the question?[/quote]

DP. You are weirdly hostile about this.

Maybe there were other more important factors that drove PP’s decisions around schools.

Does it really matter what PP decides? You do what’s best for your own kids. No one is forcing you to send them to any specific private school. 
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That is why I find these threads incomprehensible for private schools. If I squint my eyes and pretend I’m a very privileged person who gets easily aggrieved, I can sort of see the reasoning behind the people who get worked up about redshirting in public schools. I think it’s a silly thing to get upset about, as someone with non-redshirted public school kids, and the posters complaining about it always seem precious to me, but I can at least see it.

But I find the posters complaining about redshirting in private school completely bizarre. There are many private school options, and there is always public. Why, then, spend your lives obsessed over the schools that have admissions policies you hate? Why pay a lot of tuition to go to schools that you passionately believe are unfair? The anti-redshirt posters on these threads get really, really angry about the policies of the schools they pay to send their kids to. It just seems like there is an extremely obvious solution to their issue.

A few years ago there was an anti-redshirt thread from a mom who was seriously (!!!) complaining, I mean really really upset, because the expensive private school where she sent her kid had a school festival and her younger kindergartner was too small to ride the rides, which she blamed on redshirting. I will never forget that thread — I even remember where I was when I read it — because I found that poster so utterly incomprehensible. I just cannot imagine being a fully grown adult (which Jeff even said wasn’t a troll) and having that thought seriously go through my head. It was fascinating, in a way.

I guess in the end I do not understand the anti-redshirters who complain bitterly about redshirting in private. Why not just not go? Find a private school that doesn’t redshirt, or go to public? Do they understand that they don’t have to pay tuition money to schools they don’t like? That they don’t have to seek out and apply at places with admissions policies they despise? Why all the drama?[/quote]

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