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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The jealousy and pettiness and sense of victimhood on this thread is something to behold. A gentle reminder that DC public schools are not very good. Standardized testing suggests your kids would get a better education if they went to any random public school in Iowa. So the idea that if a kid "reshirts" or, put more directly, repeats a grade at a mediocre school, that he or she will get some amazing benefit and be transformed into a math whiz or something seems disconnected from reality. [/quote] Maybe this is a disconnect — I don’t think “redshirt” is used for repeating a grade. It is a term for NOT starting when you “should” have so you can start the next year (when you will be on the oldest end of the grade rather than the younger end). No one has a problem with kids who need to repeat a grade, a decision in which the school has a say. [/quote]
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