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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Potentially. If they're in a social group where there are lots of families sending their kids to private, they may also run into the oddness in club sports like lacrosse where kids are grouped by graduation year and not birth year. Also probably not something that would be a big problem outside of Baltimore, but easily something a Baltimore parent could be confused or even upset about. And yes, something that can affect your kid, even if just a little. And surely people can vent about just about anything. Except, I suppose, red shirting.[/quote]

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