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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't the whole point of redshirting to make them the best on the team? So what if they are bored, they will play better than their younger classmates.[/quote]

I doubt many parents who redshirt do it to make them best of team. Most often it’s because they are worried their child is not emotionally mature relative to other kids startinderg kingarten. [/quote]

I think that this is a far more accurate statement.  My child was born mid-September but he was also premature and should have been born at the end of October.  We opted to wait.  His preschool felt he still had trouble regulating his emotions and was not ready.  We spoke to his pediatrician who said it was better to go by his actual due date and not his birthday. We met with the kindergarten teacher and she told us to wait as well.

He is doing great in school, it has nothing to do with sports.  He is not bored.  I never thought I was redshirting him.

Now recently his friend who is a year younger and born in September (same class) mom (first grade teacher) has been consistently saying oh - you redshirted him, he is so old, etc.  Her child struggles in school, has an IEP, and reads well below grade level.  I have never been in a situation where a parent seems to be attacking me for the choices that I made.  To say my child was redshirted is disingenuous.  He entered school when he was required to (before he turned 6 at the September 30 cut off).  But to have a parent constantly say that in groups and social outings is so strange.

Why do parents care so much about what another family decides to do and the choices that were made?[/quote]

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