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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m still not seeing widespread redshirting of non-summer birthdays in my corner of FCPS. I know it happens more in private school though.

Honestly I think this is a foreseeable side effect of the COVID closures. No one wanted their kids in Covid K so they held back if possible. No one wanted their kids in masked all year K so they too held back. Then other people caught on that this was happening on a widespread scale and they too, redshirted their kids even when Covid was done. [b]You also can’t treat education as optional for an extended period of time and then get upsetty Betty when people start disregarding the old rules[/b]/norms. [/quote]

I think there’s some of this…but in my experience it’s a little more nuanced than that.  COVID said that parents needed to do the work of teachers/schools. Well, this is a type-A, do the research and cite your source kind of place. So a lot of parents did that research and decided that 4-5 isn’t considered by much of the developed world to be the optimal time to start school, that outdoor play and socio-emotional development at that stage is more beneficial, and are acting accordingly. [/quote]

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