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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ONLY reason red shirting is on my mind for my Aug boy is that so many people are doing this and he will be 15 months + younger than other kids. I HATE this. I won't do it for this reason but it's on my mind - if people kept to the cut off dates except for true special cases we would all be better off.

My sons preschool teacher used to teach K in NY. She said they met with all kids whose parents wanted to keep them back. If they passed the screening and the teachers felt they were ready then they went. Wish they did that here.[/quote]

He will be around plenty of kids born in Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, and Jul.  Right?  We are in FCPS, and I just don't see the epidemic of red-shirting that everyone is hollering about.  Seems like we have at most 1 or maybe 2 kids per class.  Doesn't affect much in the classroom dynamic.

Of course, now that I think about it, this may be because we are in an area with a very high percentage of central Asian and east Asian students.  Stereo-typically speaking, those kids are pushed ahead (as in learning to read early, etc) rather than held back.  I'm the PP with 3 kids in elementary and all 4 of the red-shirted kids in my kids' 3 classes are white.[/quote]

This is true for my kids' school as well.  In our area of FCPS, we simply don't have to deal with this issue.[/quote]

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