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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a shrimpy adult. 110 lbs dripping wet. When I visit my 2nd grade kid I'm way bigger than his classmates (well, all but one) but I top out at 5th grade. That seems to be the year when they are the same size as me.

Should I still be in 5th grade? A year would have made me older, but still the shortest kid in my class in elementary. I do not in any way understand redshirting because of height or weight. It seems so crazy to me. [/quote]

I don't understand it either. And when people ask, "My child is small, should I delay kindergarten for a year?", I say no. That still doesn't mean that delaying kindergarten for a year -- WHICH THE RULES SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE FOR -- is cheating.[/quote]

Okay, sure. The word Cheating seems to be where we disagree. We could call it dumb? Shortsighted (no pun intended)? Illogical? But not cheating. Thats fine. Why a parent ties a Childs intellectual capacity to their height is dumb. We've seen parents do it throughout this thread and every other one on the subject. This is where my belief that parents should not be in charge of this decision. If children have a medical or social issue they should be getting treatment, not having their playing field tilted downhill for them.

Make a date. Let parents on either side of the date by a month do whatever they want. If your kid has issues so severe that they ought to delay 20% of their life to start school, get them treatment, not more preschool. Thats all. [/quote]

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