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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people I take issue with are those who redshirt in order to give their kid the "advantage" of being the oldest/biggest/most mature/etc kid in class.  Those are the people in a race to the bottom, in my opinion.

That's different from the argument that all kids should start K at, say, 6, instead of 5.  Assuming you're working within an annual grade framework, you're still always going to have an oldest kid and a youngest kid in class, and all of the challenges associated with having kids nearly a full year apart operating under the same curriculum.  But at least you could argue here that even the youngest kid was "ready" to start K at the start of the school year.

One is wanting to redshirt because you want your kid to rule over all of the others; the other is in favor of redshirting everyone for the sake of community.[/quote]

Thank you! Someone with a brain... finally![/quote]

They do it because aap looks at the teacher's gifted behavior rating scale, adn a lot of inexperienced teachers look at the bigger, older kids and think they're gifted when really they're just old.[/quote]

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