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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fine. I'll bite. 
I'm a teacher,  I think redshirting is ridiculous. The notion that your kid should be the oldest is absurd.  A good teacher is flexible and designs a curriculum that meets the child where he is at. A strong curriculum molds itself to the needs of the children, not the other way around. As a disclaimer, I should add that I teach at a well regarded private school, so I do have the flexibility to do this, but, I feel that private schools are where you see a lot of the redshirting.[/quote]

If you teach at a well regarded private, you probably don't have the issue of special needs to consider.  Many people with children who have special needs find their child is in need of further therapy before being ready for school.[/quote]

Most of us with SN who are good parents see it very early and do heavy early interventions to give our kids the best possible chance.  If you met my child now, you'd never guess how much therapy he was in or what he did.  Between us, great therapists and some really good prek-1 teachers, he's doing fantastic.  Great teachers make a huge different - the ones who will take that extra minute to help a child even its a burden on them.  Kids who are held back and not evaluated and given help are kids whose parents and preschool teachers failed them.  If this many kids need to be held back, our preschools and parents are failing their kids.  Even SN kids like mine can thrive with the right people to help.  The difference is instead of ignoring the problem/holding our kids back, we got them the tools they needed to succeed.  [/quote]

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