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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The idea that Lafayette moms are saying that other folks have a "sense of victimhood" is amazing. If you hate DCPS so much, go elsewhere. It sounds like folks at Lafayette would rather you did too.[/quote]

Not a Lafayette mom. Just saying that parents can have good reasons to hold their kids back; you don't actually know what those reasons are and they dont have to tell you; and if a child is held back, it has zero consequences for your child. Reading this thread you'd think all the kids who didnt "get" to repeat a grade are getting completely screwed over. [/quote]

1) no one is arguing that parents who want to redshirt should have to share their reasons with me, personally. But DCPS policy was at principal's discretion, not parents. So they did need to share their reasons with the principal, who deemed them insufficient 
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2) Redshirting can of course have an impact on other children. It changes the composition of the class. It can impact behavioral expectations, disadvantaging on-time kids who may now be viewed as immature for the grade because redshirted kids pull the average age up. It could also have consequences down the road in HS applications, when being a year older may make it easier for kids to compete on factors like leadership, interview skills, and relationships with teachers.[/b][/quote]

Catastrophize much? This is so utterly ridiculous it's hard to believe an adult human believes this. Get a grip. [/quote]

On the flip side, how narcissistic do you have to be to think that your behavior has no effect on others? It just seems like you absolutely have your head in the sand. Unless you truly believe parents should -- at their absolute discretion -- be able to enroll their kids in any year they want to, you also understand that having similarly aged cohorts has *some* utility and that when that breaks down, there is *some* effect on other kids. People are trying to explain to you not what one kid being redshirted would do (very little in most cases), but what would happen if DC became a district where redshirting proliferated... and, yes, it would absolutely become a self-fulfilling prophecy where expectations change and redshirting certain birthdays becomes the norm, just like at the private schools that permit redshirting. [/quote]

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