Reply to Just another redshirting vent

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "Just another redshirting vent"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truly mindblowing thing here is that this whine-fest started over a kid who is in BALTIMORE PRIVATE SCHOOL.

For those who are unfamiliar: [b]ALL [/b]Baltimore independents funnel [b]ALL [/b]summer birthdays into a "pre-first" or "prep first" or "6th age" or whatever grade.  Parents can and do object, and most schools allow parents' wishes to override -- but that's an exception, not the rule. The default is for summer birthday kids to go into a pre-first year.

What Baltimore independents do is, effectively, to change the cutoff dates, that's all. They haven't magically made a classroom with a 2-year span.

The only way for anti-redshirters to be affected by this at all is if:
1) They enroll their child in a Baltimore independent school; AND
2) They choose not to follow the school's recommendation for placement.

Otherwise, their little non-redshirted Larla will be in a class with approximately a 12-mo spread, with one or two outliers.

People lose their g**dm minds when redshirting comes up, but Baltimore private schools are the least "harmful" case of redshirting ever, even given the dubious standards of harm that anti-redshirters employ.[/quote]

If everyone entered Baltimore privates in K, then you'd be correct. Parents of children who enter after that point may not have been aware of the pre-first pattern, and can be blindsided.

At that point, schools are accepting children based on more data so birthdays don't loom as large when it comes to placement and a summer birthday kid can end up in the "correct" grade instead of recommended for the grade below.

But in general, I agree with you. In Baltimore privates, if you have a summer birthday kid, he or she is doing pre-first, and may do pre-first if there are other issues. It's an entirely normal part of the progression, and the weird kids are not the old-for-grade kids but the on-time summer birthday kids or the rare grade skippers.[/quote]

But then the answer to the OP's question is just no, you're not going to encounter this when you send your late summer/fall kid to public school "on time."  It's a weird private school thing that will not affect you or your child.  They have effectively added a year to K-12 because they can and it's not going to affect you or your kid so who cares.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics