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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be glad the cutoff is 9/1.

In New York State, it’s 12/31.   And people still redshirt summer boys at least, so the gap is huge.  [/quote]

That’s too much. Public schools really need to mandate it. Anything that is 6months from the cutoff should require a medical/learning condition of some sort that they are receiving services for. [/quote]

Nonsense. You parent your kids, let other people parent theirs. [/quote]

The point is that it affects others. It affects the class dynamic. It changes the age and size range etc in the class.[/quote]

This. I don't understand the attitude that redshirting is a purely individual choice. Obviously there's a social/cooperative dynamic or there wouldn't be age cut offs at all. They'd just tell parents to send kids when they felt like it.

I don't have any issues with redshirting when appropriate but I don't think it should just be a unilateral parent choice unless you're talking about kids right near the cut off where it's not really going to make a difference for the cohort (a redshirted August birthday is always either going to be the oldest or youngest, but only by a bit so I don't care what parents choose in those cases).[/quote]

Make up your minds. Does it hurt others or only hold your own kid back if you redshirt? So many people post about what a tragedy it is to redshirt your kid and the message it sends to them and how their young for grade kid is running circles around everyone. So what's the problem? I think it's pretty clear people use the faux concern as a cover because they are insecure about their own kids.[/quote]

You are dragging in every other conversation about redshirting and (angrily, and without reason) lumping them all together. I can tell you are just chomping at the bit to yell at "anti-redshirters" and you don't actually read the posts because your arguments make no sense in the context of this thread.

OP isn't making an argument against all redshirting, she's looking for a more formalized process. Like giving parents discretion within an age window but requiring a more formal process (an evaluation, a diagnosis, some kind of application for approval) outside that window. This is not an "anti-redshirt" position. It's a "pro-clarity" position. It would still enable people to redshirt and it would have zero impact on the vast majority of redshirting decisions, which involve kids within a couple months of the cut off. But it would give schools a bit more control over age cohorts and therefore give parents a bit more confidence that their kid is in the right cohort with kids who are at a similar maturity level.

There are school districts (like DCPS, for instance) where they actually require some kind of documentation/permissions process for ANY redshirting decision, so OP is not even suggesting a particularly restrictive policy. Just more restrictive than "do whatever you want."[/quote]

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