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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people I take issue with are those who redshirt in order to give their kid the "advantage" of being the oldest/biggest/most mature/etc kid in class.  Those are the people in a race to the bottom, in my opinion.

That's different from the argument that all kids should start K at, say, 6, instead of 5.  Assuming you're working within an annual grade framework, you're still always going to have an oldest kid and a youngest kid in class, and all of the challenges associated with having kids nearly a full year apart operating under the same curriculum.  But at least you could argue here that even the youngest kid was "ready" to start K at the start of the school year.

One is wanting to redshirt because you want your kid to rule over all of the others; the other is in favor of redshirting everyone for the sake of community.[/quote]

There are very, very few people who do that.  People redshirt because their child is developmentally delayed; lags in social skills; and their teachers or therapists recommend it.  Kids repeat K because they're behind on reading and need an extra year.  The idea that there's some kind of rampaging sector redshirting in public schools to give their child a leg up is a myth, and it belies that the anti-redshirters are the ones obsessed with the relative status of their own child.  [/quote]

Not a myth! I am living this now. There are almost 7 yo in my DS K class reading at 3rd grade level. Surely they were not held back for any kind of delay. My summer birthday child is at the bottom of the class despite being bright. He has to work extra hard to keep up with kids almost 2 years older, how is this fair?[/quote]

They are almost 7, but your child is almost 6.  So he is one year younger, not two.  If he’s behind, and he has a summer birthday, then you should push to have him repeat kindergarten.  Frankly, I think this is more beneficial to kids than three years of preschool anyway.   [/quote]

The anti-redshirt posters can't do basic math. You have to do it for them.[/quote] I've noticed this too. You talk about redshirting an August or September birthday kid and they're like "your son will feel stupid being 19 in high school." [/quote]

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