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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A friend works at a top public HS in Virginia and says if you look at the kids on the Honor Roll and the kids on the Suspension List - guess who's on the HR (kids who are old for their grade) and who's on the SL (kids who are the youngest in the grade).

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I'd rather my kid make the honor roll every other semester playing by the rules than make the honor roll every semester by cheating.[/quote]

This is actually funny. All this pearl-clutching about red-shirting! I think it's the super competitive parents who are all up in arms about it. If you didn't want to do it, you didn't. But other people made choices to hold their kids back for various reasons (see above). So.... now what? it's this fakey moralizing that cracks me up. I have never met a parent of a 4/5/6 year old who talked about how it wouldn't be FAIR to hold their kid back. These parents make decisions that are best for their families/kids at that moment and they typically have to do with not wanting to pay for another year of child care, or their kids already can read and would be bored in preK for another year, or whatever - NOT about what would be fair to the population of future classmates of their children, or whether it would be cheating (!!) to hold back.

This is the world you live in, non-red-shirters, so suck it up and live in it. You didn't hold back and now you all feel bad. But you can still feel morally superior, I guess. That's not going to stop individual families from doing what they think is best for their kids at any given point. Good thing there's dcum!  [/quote]

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