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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should have a rule about it. Unless there is a documented reason by a school or doctor, there should be no red shirting. [/quote]

What’s it to you?

Jerk.[/quote]

NP here. Because when 6 and then 7 year olds are in K, its unfair to the correctly-aged kids. The older ones get bored, act up and misbehave. Later on they are hitting puberty earlier, are more mature which pulls all the issues of puberty across the grade early.[/quote]

Let me ask you this.  Do you have the same objections to kids getting held back and having to repeat Kindergarten? Because this happens with regularity at our DCPS.  Unfortunately a lot of those kids are just starting school for the first time in K and are behind the kids with years of preschool under their belts.  They would have been better served starting in PK4.  [/quote]

If this were the case, it would be a documented reason. Not just because the parent feels like it.

(Although I'm against holding kids back because the research isn't there to support it)[/quote]

No, principals have the discretion to hold back. There's no "documented" reason other than that the kid is behind, in their view.

Also "the research' doesn't show anything about any particular kid. How about MYOB and worry about your own kid.  [/quote]

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