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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People should leave redshirting parents alone. They know better than anyone if their child is incapable of handling a Kindergarten class. I would prefer that when my child goes to Kindergarten they are not in class with a bunch of kids who cannot manage being there.

If your child is in no shape to go to Kindergarten, keep them out for another year.[/quote]

Cannot "manage" being there?  What does that even mean?  There will be more mature kids and less mature kids.  There will be academically advanced kids, and academically behind kids.  There is no way to create a 'fair' system of clones with identical abilities, despite what redshirting parents claim to think.
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Most do it to try to get their kid a leg up.[/b][/quote]

How do you know this?[/quote]

Because it's everywhere.

From the NYT: Parents of these children often delay school entry in an attempt to give them a leg up on peers. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/dont-delay-your-kindergartners-start.html)

From the New Yorker: It’s this competitive logic, rather than genuine concern about a child’s developmental readiness, that drives redshirting. Many parents decide to redshirt their children not because they seem particularly immature or young but because they hope that the extra year will give them a boost relative to their peers.  (http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/youngest-kid-smartest-kid)

From Cornell:  many parents and educators believe holding children back from entering kindergarten offers advantages if they are older relative to their classmates (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/07/redshirting-kids-yields-no-advantage-higher-education)

Shall I go on?

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OK, so you know that many parents do it to give their kid a leg up because the NYT, New Yorker, and Cornell press release say so. Now, how do they know that?[/quote]

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