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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sense, especially since the metaphor is borrowed from sports, is that whether you accept or reject the practice probably relates to how you look at schools.  I'm an educator so I look at them as places whose primary function is to foster learning.  From that perspective, the practice makes lots of sense.  If, by contrast, school's primarily an arena for competition I guess some people will resent any practice that helps some other kid but doesn't benefit their own.  I just don't think it's such a zero-sum game.

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It's interesting how attitudes have changed now that "redshirting" has replaced "holding back." In sports, redshirting is done to gain a competitive advantage. In schools, by contrast, most parents seem to argue that they are not pursuing an advantage but trying to make sure their kids can keep up with the rest of the class. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with that. (Maybe we should go back to calling it "holding back.")  However, there do seem to be a few people who want to give their kids "the gift of time" so that their kids will be the oldest, the biggest, the strongest, the most able, etc. It's this kind of competitive redshirting--which I think is relatively rare--which tends to raise hackles.
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