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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate this. Hate this hate this.

I should be able to send my March bday 5yo to kindergarten the following fall without being worried that he'll be toward the bottom of the pack in size, self-control, concentration etc. Full day mandatory kindergarten is bad enough. K should be centers and free play and recess and alphabets. Not worksheets and reading groups. He's a bright kid and will do just fine, but it shouldn't even be on my RADAR as a concern.

Put your kid in school![/quote]

You sound pretty entitled. [/quote]

No, parents who think they can game the system to make their children the smartest/tallest/most athletic/most mature are the entitled ones. PP just wants her child to be in kindergarten with other kindergarteners, not first and second graders. [/quote]

Pretty typical DCUM response there--to call the mom who says "maybe everyone should just try and follow the rules" [i]entitled[/i]. Some people are so entitled they don't even know what it means anymore. [/quote]

If schools chose to allow redshirting, it isn't "against the rules" to redshirt.  PP is getting a hard time because she doesn't want others to redshirt so that their kids and not hers are the youngest in the class.

If you don't want to people to redshirt, take it up with the school board.  But the reason most schools allow it is that it leads to higher test scores and better behaved kids, particularly in the younger grades.  If there were no advantages to the school, the practice would not be allowed to continue.[/quote]

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