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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.[/quote]

It literally does not matter, speaking as a parent who didn’t redshirt and has kids in their older teens now. If you think it matters, you have lead, so far, a pretty narrow and restricted life. Of all the things my kids have encountered in their lives, other kids redshirting is never, ever on the list of even mildly problematic things they’ve encountered. I’d honestly be pretty stressed out as a parent if they told me the redshirting of other kids bothered them, because it would show my kids lacked a healthy sense of perspective and reality. (Fortunately my kids would never do that.)

Also, you have plenty of options with private school: just go to a private school that does not redshirt. There are some schools that don’t redshirt very often if at all. I don’t understand why that concept is so hard to grasp, but with private schools you have options. [/quote]

Anecdote does not equal data. It is impossible to say that allowing kids up to four months older in a class with has a 16 month range of birthdays does not effect how a teacher provides instruction to the group or how the cohort of children interact together, or how expectations of social, behavioral, and academic norms are skewed. I don't know any mainstream schools that don't redshirt. Make the cut off May 1 and stick to it.[/quote]

My young for the grade child is in the highest math level and does very well academically.  What skews it is the expectations for "maturity" and people have unrealistic ideas about what maturity is and should be.  I cannot imagine holding my child back and there were concerns, many when they were turning 5.

These kids are 5 either at the start of the school year or a month after.  Holding them back makes no sense.  And, if they have concerns like my child, sending them where they can get the supports and interventions (along with private therapies) makes far more sense.  If kids are with kids a year younger they aren't going to be more mature than their peers.  They will be less mature as their peers are a year younger.[/quote]

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