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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are kids who are redshirted twice (and some redshirted kids are retained).  This seems to be a specific issue for specific private schools, not an issue that my public school kid will ever encounter.[/quote]

If that’s the case and it’s upsetting to those parents/children, parents who send their kids to private schools are free to “vote with their dollars” and send their kids to another private school or to public school. But redshirting twice or redshirting/retaining just isn’t happening in public schools. Hell, even redshirting of non-summer birthdays is rare. Like “a small handful in an entire grade of hundreds of kids” level of rare.

I’m going to be super annoyed if all this “debate” is just a bunch of salty private school parents upset because their schools have their own cutoffs (official or “unofficial” and the parents just didn’t realize that’s how private schools do things. [/quote]

It is precisely a bunch of salty private school parents whining. Redshirting is statistically relatively unusual in most public schools. It's bizarre that private school parents complain about redshirting, and combined with the fact that they frequently don't seem to be able to do basic math, I wonder about their thinking skills. It's particularly odd when they complain about redshirted kids "getting a leg up" when they are literally paying thousands of dollars every year to do the same thing on a far larger scale.

I almost feel like DCUM should have a sticky thread titled "Private School Parents Who Hate Redshirting: Here's What To Do" and then it will have a post that explains in easy-to-understand language how private school admissions work and offers a refresher on the concept of paying tuition voluntarily. [/quote]
You’re making this up.  - public school mom [/quote]

No, it's relatively rare in public schools on average.[/quote]

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