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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not read this entire thread, but only recently became aware of this issue. Has anybody here discussed the unfairness of redshirting to those who have late summer boys who don't or can't redshirt? My now college age August born boy struggled all throughout school because of his young age in comparison to boys--and girls--who were sometime over 18 months older than him. And he was not alone. DC is right to enforce the rules--no vanity redshirting.[/quote]

It's so weird how schools in DC are friggin enormous, bigger than many colleges, and somehow everyone knows precisely how old each student is, as well as how well they perform academically compared to older and younger kids in their class. [/quote]

This whole thread is so ridiculous. You’re all insane. [/quote]

This thread reminds me of the extended debate about renaming Wilson High Schooll. Who gives a fck?  So some kids are held back. Who cares?[/quote]

I have lnever given red shirting a single second thought until these entitled moms started dragging our principal through the press. I think that’s partially why the thread is so long. It’s the messenger more than the message.[/quote]

So find your adult mind, understand the parents are obnoxious, and think through the issue pedagogically.

Let’s say the option is given to parents to decide the grade of a child. How many parents would choose to have a 7yo in a kindergarten class in order to give them a hypothetical “advantage?” My estimate is zero, but maybe I’m wrong. Run a survey. Give it a test run. My bet is still on zero 7yos in kindergarten.

Of the 6yo’s, how many have parents who just want them to be the “star?” These poor, misguided kids have hyper competitive parents and will suffer from that more than anything else.

Of the rest, what are the reasons? As long as you’re preventing &lt;1% of kids from suffering for 12 years per pp post, let them red shirt.

As for the pp who did not redshirt their child and instead let them suffer for 12 years per their own story, what a horrible parent. I would’ve moved to MD or private before letting my kid endure  what that parent did.

And to any parent who does it for equity reasons, you’re horrible. Parent your child. Move or choose another school.[/quote]

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