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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's an argument for red shirting: it potentially can save the school and District money on IEP and 504s. It also helps keep the older class on track by not having a student who is emotionally immature or who would benefit from doing a lower grade level work.

Its a tough issues for families and schools where kids are near the cut off date.[/quote]

It doesn't save as if a child is delayed they will need help and the longer you wait the more a child will struggle and the more help they will need.  If your child is struggling and you know it as a parent you need to get them help before K.  [b]If your child needs to be held back, you failed to get your child the help they needed if its something like immaturity.  [/b]However, no kids should be mature going into K.  No 5 year old is mature.[/quote]

Rigid thinking about the cutoffs is how public schools usually operate, however that doesn't make it right.

If your kid is within a few months of the cutoff, making them young for the grade, any immaturity can easily be within normal.

Take a kid who is old for their grade and doing well, then change the cutoffs and make them young for grade instead, and they may struggle.

The cutoffs are arbitrary.[/quote]

There needs to be a cut off.  No kids are mature.  And, an older kid isn't more mature, they are older.  If they are with younger kids and behaving as those kids are, they are immature.  Its insane to have kids 2 years apart. Its more of an isssue when you have a 13-14 year old taking classes with a 18-19-20 year old in high school.[/quote]

Why do we need rigid cutoffs?  Also why would a 13-14 yo be taking classes with an 18-20 yo?

Many private schools operate with some flexibility around the cutoffs.  They also offer a far superior product to DCPS.[/quote]

Really, you don't know why?  Math, electives like foreign language, ap, arts.  My child as a Freshman was in multiple classes with juniors and seniors.  As a sophmore, they are the only sophomores with juniors and seniors.  [/quote]

That school sounds awful, this is not normal.[/quote]

It’s very normal when you have freshman in the highest level orchestra or chorus or precal for math.  [/quote]

No, that doesn’t happen at any decent school.[/quote]

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