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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg, another epic post where people weigh in with vehement opinions on other people’s lives.
So pathetic![/quote]

It's really only the anti-redshirt posters who fall into that bucket. Though they do tend to pitch a fit when their hypocrisy is observed and commented on.[/quote]

“I didn’t redshirt, though.”

It’s so odd for anyone in general to be rabidly pro redshirting.   One of my BFFs has a child who is the literal youngest in an insanely competitive school.   And they didn’t opt for it.  There are other ways to go about life.  [/quote]

People aren't rabidly pro-redshirting. What they are want, at  most, is a proocess where there aren't rigid cutoffs and there is greater parental discretion. It's the anti-redshirts that are rabid on DCUM, all without any real evidence to back their positions.

I didn't redshirt. But I find the topic interesting, and follow the discussions, such as they are.

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There are no rabid pro redshirters bc the red-shirting parents don’t want everyone to redshirt. Then they’d be in the same boat as if they didn’t redshirt their kid. [/quote]

Despite what they claim, this is all absolutely about having their child be one of the strongest (or at least not the weakest), relatively speaking. They cheat to try to ensure that there will always be kids below their own. It’s disgusting.[/quote]
I do wonder what would happen if everyone held their child back. Would these parents hold back their child another year? Would we have 7/8 year olds in Ker?[/quote]

There is an interesting data point on this that came out of the large Dutch ADHD study. That study was the only large one that did not replicate the link to relative age and ADHD. What is interesting about that is that Dutch parents have more leeway in when their kids enter school. After I read the study, I was interested in that, and so read about it. Essentially, the judgment of Dutch parents is trusted with respect to their children's maturity levels. They can hold back if they feel it's appropriate. There's a greater age range in the classroom, but it's about a year versus 18 months. No, you don't end up with kids who are much older because many parents send their kids "early" as well. But what you do avoid are some of the maturity issues causing many issues in the classroom. Sometimes I wonder if the people who want to be extremely rigid about cutoff don't trust their own judgment as parents, and therefore don't want to trust anyone else's judgment. They want bright-line rules because they don't want parental judgment entering the picture.

Anyhow, maybe read a bit about the Dutch ADHD study and that educational system. It's interesting. [/quote]

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