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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all the pro-RS people claiming their choice doesn’t affect anyone else’s kid—of course it does! [b]It turns young kids who are sent on time into even more of an outlier if some of the kids are over 12 months older[/b]. So parents who don’t want to red shirt very much have a stake in the choice other parents on their community make.

I am so thankful that red shirting is uncommon in my area. My summer birthday son is petite for his age but academically advanced and was so ready to go to kindergarten at 5, and I’m glad that there are other boys similar to him in his class and no boys who are 12+ months older than him.  [/quote]

And if that is something you want to avoid, you have the same degree of parental choices as everyone else. My September birthday was in class with someone 12+ months older than her this year and as I mentioned I didn’t know that until well after the school year ended because normal parents make decisions for their kids unrelated to the choices of other parents.[/quote]

You are making my point exactly—in a community where red shirting is common, I’d have to make the choice between holding my child back so that he fit in better from a size/maturity perspective but was unchallenged by the schoolwork, or sending him on time where he receives appropriate schoolwork but is in a class where he is smaller and less mature than the other kids. From my perspective, this is a lose/lose scenario. Luckily he goes to a private school where red shirting is not common so he is both academically challenged and fits in with his classmates in terms of size and maturity—win/win![/quote]

Plenty of on-time time kids are bored with kindergarten academically— you need to provide your kid appropriate enrichment. [/quote]

Kids like mine are bored as they were prepared for K, and have to go through school with kids who weren't prepared and they teach to the lowest kids.  These play based preschools don't prepare kids and many parents don't work with their kids at home so for those of us who send our kids to more academic preschools and work with them at home, have kids more "advanced" when they really aren't more advanced or smarter, but had more opportunities.[/quote]

And, a 5-6-7-8 year old should not be "mature" and I'm not even sure what that means for those age kids.[/quote]

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