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[quote=Anonymous]People misunderstand how education works in US. I’m guessing the posters complaining about redshirting come from Asian countries where education is seen as a way to make society more uniform and fair, ie everybody gets the same thing, you go with your student cohort from kindergarten to college. These people expect lots of rigid rules to be followed and imagine the schools can ask for medical records, testing results and evaluations or that parents to be compelled to do certain things which are complete non starters here.

US is different, it doesn’t have a centralized education system and schools are paid from local budgets, educate the children from the local community, following local customs and norms. Redshirting varies wildly across geography, socioeconomic class, culture etc, so if it’s locally accepted, the schools will abide. Also schools in US are far more flexible, students can start early, skip grades, finish high school early if they have the credits, dual enroll in community college or start later (ie be held back). For math, students can finish differential equations in high school or stop after two years with geometry. All these options are not common in other countries and people used to other educational systems have unrealistic expectations.

During the DEI wave there was a modicum of scrutiny on different practices and there was a little pushback. That wave passed and things are back to how they were.

In my view the flexibility of the US education is a good thing.[/quote]

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