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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think at this point people can see the anti-redshirters for what they are: aggressive hypocrites who attack little children. They always show who they are in the end. Every single time. [/quote]

Are you trying to justify your choices?  People are concerned with others holding back their kids as it is not developmentally appropriate for the held back kids nor the other kids in the classroom.  If your kids have delays, send them on time and get them help.  It's not a kid issue as the kids have no say, it's a parenting issue.

There are very few good reasons to hold back a child except significant special needs.  And, really, those kids should go to school to get the therapies and supports.[/quote]

Reality check.  You can’t tell from looking at a kid if they have a special need.  You have no idea what factors went in to a parent’s decision to hold back a kid.  You’re making an assumption that because a child appears neurotypical and healthy, that the parents have no “developmentally appropriate” need to hold back.  [/quote]

I had a child with significant needs and the best thing we did was send them.  My kid was in daily private therapies.   If your child has delays they need help and one help is school.      I don’t need to make assumptions, that was our situation.  I quit my job and did 1-2 therapies a day and many other things to give my kid every chance to catch up.  We did it for many years.  [/quote]
My August-born child had delays (fine motor, speech and language) and the IEP offered 20 minutes of speech 2x/week and 30 minutes of OT 3x/month. So for kids in a more self-contained setting/severe needs going to school to get the services might make sense, but for mine the "supports" were minimal [/quote]

You are lucky as mine got 30 minutes of weekly group speech with 6-8 kids with unrelated needs and no OT. Our private evaluations recommended way more and even their screenings suggested my child needed more but that's all they would give.  (though I suspect it was because we were doing so much privately). That honestly doesn't sound that minimal compared to what we go.  I pulled my kid out of school early a few times a week or during lunch for private services till we could get them moved to after school which took years for slots to open up.  Y[b]ou do what you have to do to help your kids. [/b] [/quote]
Right, that's my point. Inevitably in these threads someone always brings out the "if your kid is delayed they need to be in school to get services!!"...I don't know exactly what they envision these services to be like but for all but the most severely delayed kids (e.g., usually in a self-contained SPED unit) the "services" aren't going to bridge the gap[/quote]

We aren’t talking about kids who are that disabled they end up in self contained classrooms.  You are making up stuff.  [/quote]
ok. then what are you talking about? my child was delayed and not ready to go to kindergarten right as he turned 5. pp said he should be sent on time "to get help." the help that he would receive was very minimal and we did not feel that putting him into a situation he was totally not ready for, and get "help" for roughly one hour per week (of the ~32 he'd be in school), was appropriate. he stayed in his preschool for another year, and got that same help but while he was in a program that was developmentally appropriate for him. *shrug*[/quote]

You should be supplementing with private services and not just relying on the school.  All that money for preschool could have been spent on it.[/quote]

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