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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't want people to do anything except admit the inconsistency. And also, explain why a parent is the best judge for whether a child should start school at 5 or 6, but not whether their child should start instead at 7, or 8. Or skip K completely. At what age do parents stop being the best judge and the school begin to be the best judge? Is it the same age for both retention and advancement? Parents arguing for (and against) redshirting often say parents are the best judge. What does that mean? Why in this case and not in others?[/quote]

My guess is that the schools allow parents to make the decision to send kids later but not earlier is that there are some parents out there who would send their kids earlier because it saves them daycare tuition.  I'm not saying most parents would do this, but there are some out there who see K as the chance to have six hours of free daycare and so might want to send their October or November birthday kids, even if they are not truly ready. Parents who send their kids a year later are not saving any money by doing so, so the schools see parents holding their kids out as doing what they think is best for their kids. It would be hard for the school to allow parents to decide and end up with many kids in a class who should have waited until the following year.

I wrote above about a child born on September 30. When tested by the school, he was found to be unready for and the school counselor encouraged the parent to keep him out till the next year. The parent disregarded this advice and sent him anyway. It was a mistake all around for the child and for his classmates who had to endure his behavior. If parents could choose to send their kids early, some parents would send their kids whether they were ready or not. 
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