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Forced to group? Oh the humanity! Go with the group you are supposed to be with. Isn’t that the entire point of the anti redshirters? I have a late summer birthday kid and he has friends in both grades. He has never complained about this grave injustice. Maybe your kid needs help with social skills.[/quote]

I think you are being willfully obtuse.

If different activities have different cut offs, then some kids will be grouped with one cohort for one activity (school for example) and a different group for a different activitiy (Swimming or hockey for example)

So going with "the one you are supposed to be with" puts some people in a position of having different groups, or not being able to participate with their friends.[/quote]

You are being willfully difficult. Your snowflakes doesn’t always get what they want. Camps and teams often split kids up anyway. Teach your kids to be flexible and resilient. Thought they were too smart and mature to even contemplate redshirting. You sure abut that?  [/quote]

It's one thing if a class is split in half between teams or camp groups.  But for August or September birthdays, it's often only one kid who is left out.  Surely you remember being a kid and how much that would suck, right?  Now remember that the kid who is being excluded is the youngest for the grade and often struggles to keep up socially even without extra hurdles.

But sure, keep saying mean things and calling my kid names.  That obviously makes the situation better.

--not pro or anti redshirting, but has a kid who wasn't redshirted but who sometimes wishes she'd redshirted her kid[/quote]

I see you are as sensitive as your kid. You want to call people obtuse and then cry about name calling?  :roll: Camp is not a life necessity. Your kid would benefit by expanding their social group.[/quote] Work on your reading comprehension.  The obtuse comment was from a different poster aimed at me.

Who said camp was a life necessity?  I certainly didn't.  I said that age cutoffs should be aligned, otherwise you encourage redshirting.  It ends up being a sucky situation for end of summer or September kids who go on time.  It's like activities and camps already assume that everyone redshirts.

And eyeroll to the posters who say that the solution is to lie about your kids age.  I rely on camp for childcare.  If my 7 let it slip that she wasn't 8, as required, I don't want a call that she's kicked out.  Not worth  it.[/quote]

Maybe there is a legit reason campers need to be 8. Someone upthread says 8 yr olds shouldn’t compete with 7 yr olds. Either age matters or it doesn’t. Why do you want your kid at a camp they aren’t old enough for?[/quote]

Haha, listen - I occasionally lied about my kids age to get her into camps with her friends (camps for which she missed the cutoff by three weeks, incidentally).  Age cutoffs are necessarily arbitrary- they have to be.  A kid three weeks older than my kid isn’t necessarily more or less ready for anything once we’re out of the infant stage.  I know what my kid can handle better than the teenagers who run the camp.[/quote]

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