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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it DOES come down to not wanting your child to be the youngest in the class. It always comes through in the end on these threads[/quote]

I think the point PP was trying to make is that by redshirting, rather than the youngest child in a class being the youngest by 12 months, the new youngest child is now the youngest by 18 months.

And while these families might not have minded a 12 month difference, they now see an 18 month difference and say "No way!" and so they redshirt, too. And on and on. Now suddenly K is for students who are 6 yo at the beginning of the school year. Rather than this being a decision made by the school or by education experts, it was driven by parents who worried that their child was too short or too shy or too disadvantaged in some other subjective way.

[b]So when people say "My decision has no impact on other kids!" they are being short sighted. They are changing things for other students, other families, and the teachers[/b]. [/quote]

I have no dog in this fight because my girls have spring birthdays and we never considered redshirting them and they'll generally fall in the middle of the pack one way or the other, but you are complaining that parents who choose to redshirt their child based on what's best for their child should be considering what impact their decision has on children they don't know?  That seems crazy to me.  How is a parent supposed to know what the make up of their child's class will be before they even start school?  How should they know that there will be other children with late summer or early fall birthdays whose parents did not redshirt them and that those children will (purportedly) be negatively impacted by the redshirted child?  I am neither pro nor anti redshirting, but I am pro doing what parents think is best for their child.  To accuse them of being short-sighted because they should have considered the impact on the other students and families, who they don't yet know, is just rude.[/quote]

ITA. Especially because these are the same group of parents who use Kumon, move to the best school district they can buy in, and who will go in and push for a gifted designation if it is not assessed.[/quote]

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