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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want to get mired in a debate over redshirting, but since this is a DC public school specific thread:

Redshirting is very uncommon in DCPS because it is almost never allowed. The only kids I've known who were in their redshirt year (as opposed to the year they "should" be in based on birth date) were kids who transferred into DCPS, because schools will not force a child who has just finished 1st grade at another school to enter 3rd grade in DCPS, for obvious reasons. But that's relatively rare. I could see a school making an exception for a child with developmental delays, but they would need to be unusual delays, not within the standard range.

BUT the good news about this is that this means a lot of the fears that parents have about sending their kids whose birthdays are just before the cut off "on time" just don't exist in DC. As other posters have attested, it is typical for classes to have a bunch of summer and September birthdays, which means your child who you think is "not ready" may not even be the youngest or second youngest kid in his grade.

When redshirting is common, this is harder because so many parents with kids on the cusp redshirt and then you risk your kid being an outlier. In DCPS, a child on the younger end of a grade cohort will not be an outlier, they will just be on the younger end of the range. Depending on class composition, it may be the older kids who are outlier because sometimes the birthdays for a given grade cluster more in the spring and summer.

So in 99.9% of cases, I'd say no, you will not be able to start PK late and also that it won't have a negative impact at all because no one else will be able to either.[/quote]

DCPS won't let the parent make the decision. But if the teacher feels a student is lagging academically they can recommend that the student repeat a grade. This is not uncommon in early elementary and common at 9th grade. [/quote]

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