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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents who are competitive enough to worry about whether other kids are redshirted don't send their kids to Montessori schools.[/quote]

I just think it is “rich” that the pro redshirters are calling the anti-redshirters competitive. [/quote]

It's true, though. Anti-redshirters are upset that their children are at some imagined competitive disadvantage - although, paradoxically, many also pay lipservice to believing that redshirting impairs development. It's never been clear to me whether this is just a lack of logic or a cynical attempt to pretend that what they believe is in their own self-interest (no redshirting) is also in the interests of the children who would otherwise be redshirted.

They're the ones doing the comparing, not the redshirting parents. If everyone just made decisions based on what's best for their own kid, and didn't worry about what everyone else was doing, there would be none of this ridiculousness.

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The redshirted parents compared enough to hold their own kid back and it wasn’t a decision that was in a vacuum without effect on making other kids younger for the grade.

[b]Anti redshirters may be competitive but not competitive enough to hold their own kids back[/b]. [/quote]

Juuuuuuuuuust competitive enough to complain on the internet. Got it!  :lol: [/quote]

Now you’ve got it.  :lol:  I can’t even complain IRL because my friends do it. But having a young for the grade kid, I experienced [b]things others might not have experienced and often barriers can be invisible[/b] to those who don’t face them so I do speak up online. [/quote]

What specifically has your child experienced? 
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Coming from my position I see that it makes a difference when there are kids more than a year older than your kid in the class. Apparently the pro redshirters do not see that the decision to redshirt affects other kids. [/quote]

But HOW? How did it specifically affect PP’s child? [/quote]

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