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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]cont.  She felt her daughter--while academically fine--was hanging out with people who were older and more mature.  Her daughter was not emotionally ready for some of the stuff in her life.[/quote]

See, that's the tricky part. There are children who aren't redshirted when young because they don't appear to need additional time, and yet as they enter their teen years, or head into mid high school, it becomes apparent that they may need some additional supports. There's no mechanism to take care of the situation then. If redshirting is such a wonder for PK and K kids, why does it become terrible and tortuous for middle or high schoolers (with the possible exception of children entering some boarding schools)? If retaining a 3/4/5/6 year old for lack of academic or emotional maturity is a good thing, why can't the same be said for retaining a 13-16 yr old?

It seems to me that rather than merely redshirting very young children, we should be looking at ways to increase the flexibility within the school system if we're honestly looking at what's best for the child.

You know what's funny? My child has had to deal with children who were older and more mature than her, and starting phases she was not quite ready for. Of course, those children were in her same grade but would have been in the grade ahead had they not been redshirted. That said, some of the phases I don't think my child would have been ready for had she been middle-of-the-pack age wise, or even the oldest in grade.[/quote]

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