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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quite honestly redshirting is the obsession of a few DCUM moms who I am convinced need massive amounts of anxiety treatment. Their fixation is weird. Nobody sane has a spreadsheet of all the kids birthdays that they track, and if they do, you need to stay away from that person because God knows what else they do.

My kids are neither the youngest or oldest. They are good friends with redshirted and young for grade kids. The bullies in the class have been bullies regardless of age (despite what the weirdo obsessives here will tell you).  I have teens now and believe me, this issue is such a tempest in a teapot. Normal, reasonable people know this. But they are not on DCUM.

You need to talk to the school. You are not going to get reasonable advance on DCUM. Frankly you ought to think carefully about why you would believe the school over DCUM. [/quote]

This issue doesn’t affect you since it sounds like your kids are in the middle age-wise.  For parents of kids right on the line it’s an issue and we have to decide whether it’s better for our child to be the oldest or the youngest and the redshirting norms at a school can affect that decision.  Of course a school can provide better information but a site like this can be useful for aggregating general information about schools.  I wouldn’t care either if my child’s birthday were anywhere near the middle.[/quote]

Nope, sorry, this really isn't an important issue regardless of where your kid is in the class. There are far, far more significant issues your kids  will encounter with respect to relative kids in the class. But go ahead and keep obsessing if you want to.[/quote]

Your recent posts sound incredibly defensive. I wonder why.... [/quote]

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