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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who are bent out of shape about other people's kids being redshirted win the worst parents of the year award. Every kid is different and every family is different. There is no one reason people keep their kid home an extra year, just as there is no one reason your kid lost the election for class president, OP! There is no one reason they weren't picked as homecoming king or queen!! Just love them anyway and stop focusing on the redshirted kids as your excuse. Your kids are fine they way they are.[/quote]

I'm not trying to stop parents from redshirting their kids. I just don't think the redshirted kid should be allowed to enter a situation where they're getting compared to their age-appropriate classmates, because of course they're going to come out on top.[/quote]

The range of "appropriate" age is closer to 18mo than it is to 12mo. You just have to accept that, I'm afraid. If you're super worried about your kid coming out "on top" then I guess you just have to time your conception carefully.

Also, I'm sorry that you see life as a cage match.[/quote]

A year is 12 months, not 18 months. The cut-offs are there to ensure that the oldest student in grade n is younger than the youngest student in grade n+1. Do you disagree that that's important for an efficient educational structure? The moment there's overlap, everything falls to shambles, because it's a violation of nature if a student in grade n is older than a student in grade n+1.

It's the parents who redshirt who should've been more careful about when they conceived. If their kid was born in the last quarter of the year, it's because they conceived in the first quarter of the year. That was their choice. They could have conceived in the second quarter of the year, which would have caused their kid to be born in the first quarter of the year. When you make a mistake or plan poorly, the proper thing to do is own up to it, instead of violating the rules that experienced professionals have worked so hard to put in place.[/quote]

Man, lady, you are off your rocker. Can you tell me about yourself? What happened to you that you are so weird?[/quote]

What's weird about thinking it's important to be organized? [/quote]

Please continue. At this point I am kind of fascinated. Tell me more![/quote]

Ikr? At first I thought she was just hyper competitive and afraid of a mean old redshirted kid besting her precious little Larla,  but now I’m thinking that she’s actually advanced OCD and just can’t stand the thought of a classroom age span that does not exactly match the time it takes the earth to make one revolution around the sun. Bet leap years drive her crazy.[/quote]

I don't care what the age-span of a classroom is as long as there isn't any overlap. What's of the utmost importance is that the oldest student in a given cohort is younger than the youngest student in the cohort immediate above.[/quote]

Oh, honey.

Out of curiosity, do you want all kids in totally identical uniforms too? What about haircuts? Exactly the same? If your child colors outside the lines, just how much does it bother you?[/quote]

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