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[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

[b]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]
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So, you're assuming:

1. Redshirting will become basically a fad and every parent will want their kid to repeat a grade (or grades! why stop at one redshirting?)

2. None of the redshirted kids will have any legitimate issues. It will just all vanity redshirting.

3. Repeating a grade isn't a waste of a child's time. In fact, an education at DCPS is such a potent thing that it's patently unfair for a child to be allowed to do it again.

4. The parents will all believe that redshirting is the shortcut to turning their kids into academic and/or athletic superstars, and that's all they care about.

5. The teachers will be too stupid to know the ground is shifting under their feet. Even though some have been teaching the same grade for 30 years, somehow they won't realize that expectations are changed, even though that's so readily apparent to DCUM

6. Repeating a grade is all gravy for the kids. They won't care about being separated from their friends. No one will be self conscious about being older than they're supposed to be.  The social stigma that comes with repeating a grade will vanish.

I dunno. Seems like a lot of thin reeds you got here. [/quote]

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