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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Careful, you just entered a DCUM war zone. Prepare for the wave of parents who say they are doing what's best for their kids, completely ignoring that redshirting inevitably puts younger kids at a disadvantage. Holding your kid back, no matter how "shy" or "immature" he or she is, will always, always skew a class demographic.

I wish private schools would set a cut off and stick with it, but that would piss off too many monied families who don't want their kid to be on the younger side. Make April or May cut offs, I don't care, but let it be a real thing and stop creating grades that span 18+ months.[/quote]
Same kids end up incessantly complaining about the immaturity of their classmates.[/quote]

The kids held back are the immature ones as they are being based off the younger kids age in terms of maturity and it makes them look and feel more mature when they aren't.[/quote]

Not always. In my kids class, thee were others who started late, more than a full year older, who were then "more athletic" and "stronger academically" than their peers. Well, ya, when your second grader is doing first grade work with other first graders, then of course they are going to appear smarter, stronger etc.

The problem is, a race to the bottom. Someone has to be the youngest in a grade, and when others are starting their kids late, it just pushes everyone else done. I really wish the schools would keep to the guidelines the publish, rather than allowing these 18-20 month spreads in a grade.[/quote]

Agreed. I'm not up in arms about it, if anything it's just an early reminder that a lot of people (in this area especially) will do anything to bend the rules to give themselves an edge. It's just how it is. But it is ridiculous to me that we even have the age cut-offs when apparently they are just suggestions. I don't think redshirting would bother people if it was truly just kids who were obviously not ready, or kids born right near the cutoff where it could go either way. But it's very much not just these kids.

Oh well. People love to push at boundaries and see what they can get away with, I guess. I still would have sent my kid on time even knowing what I now do about the culture of redshirting.[/quote]

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