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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redshirting was fine and nobody batted an eyelash until DEI came and said it inequitable and classist. As DEI wave is passing, in a year everyone will move on to something else and things will be back to redshirting being fine.

I am willing to bet that the Lafayette parents will get their way in the end.[/quote]

This is simply not true but keep blaming every thing you don't like on minorities. I'm sure it'll go great for you.[/quote]

Not PP. I didn’t think PP was blaming it on minorities. I think PP was blaming it on equity.[/quote]

I am a UMC white mom. I don’t think folks should be able to redshirt at will. It has nothing to do with equity and everything to do with needing to have a firm rule to create cohesive classes. Redshirting — or, more likely, retaining -/— with the support of the school for kid-specific developmental reasons? 100% fine. DC is a town of crazies and no age policy would mean 20 months’ spread of kids in each class. That’s not actually good for anyone.[/quote]

What is a cohesive class? People of all ages mix in the workplace and in college. Somehow that’s a no-no for high school, and kids need to be within a narrow 12 moth age of each other otherwise bad things will happen. Not buying it. My kids friends are two-three years older and younger, tall and short, not really an issue at all.

Parents know best if they want to redshirt or not, some kids need a little more time to get there. The really strict redshirting rules are stupid, how are they going to know what’s right for your child? I mean, if a parent is determined there’s not much the school district can do. You can do kindergarten and first grade in private, homeschooling for a year, retain and retake kindergarten for two years in public etc., or just push hard against the silly rules. If I thought it helped my child I’d do it.[/quote]

The workplace is not a good argument in this case.  There are maturity gaps here that do not exist in the same way when a 25 year old has to work with a 32 year old.  But in HS there is a huge maturity gap between a 14 year old and a 17 year old.  It is obvious and can create issues.[/quote]

Plenty of high school students work in part time jobs, I’m talking about settings a high school student does encounter outside the class. What do you do with volunteering and extracurriculars, bar seniors from attending club meetings because they are too old? You don’t need to be within 12 months of everyone for orchestra auditions or the robotics tournament. No friends older or younger than a year? It’s getting stupid real fast. Students take electives with a larger age gap all the time and the sky isn’t falling.

How about returning students or dual enrollment at community college, is it “fair” to take the chemistry class with the 25 year old who worked as a lab technician for a few years? It’s ok to take classes when the other students are better because of an “unfair” advantage, like taking Spanish or Chinese with native speakers, who will skew the “expectations” in the class.

All the antiredshirting fracas is just silly noise, made up by helicopter super competitive parents and is actually misplaced.focus on your kid instead of others.
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People are aware the folks who made the redshirting issue a public issue are the ones who wanted the special exemption for their kids and when the new principal and DCPS said no started screaming into every tv camera that would point their direction, right? No one went on a crusade against it so much as once these entitled Lafayette parents started screaming about how unfair life is because they can't buy their way into something the rest of us went yeah no you're right you can't and shouldn't be able to.

Like this thread re-upped in part because Lafayette parents went yelling to other white UMC class PTOs for their support in wasting time and resources to debate this at the BOE hearings.[/quote]

It’s their local school supported with their tax money and they are entitled to advocate for their children however they see fit. You can also do the same. Who is the school responsible to, if not to the parents in the community?

I am certain they’ll get their way in the end and I actually agree with it. If the parents have the energy to go to the media, that’s definitely going to be on the school board radar with an eye towards upcoming elections. [/quote]

It's all of our local tax dollars. Not just theirs. Your tax dollars aren't marked by your IB school zip code. And when they waste time so they can carve out a redshirt exemption for their kids they waste our tax dollars too.

The school and the system are responsible to the kids. Schools are not meant for parent they are there for the students.

Also the DCBOE is an entirely toothless body so no I don't think they're going to bend over backwards or care much for the exact same parents who four months ago were screaming at the principal about the playground. [/quote]

When your taxes are funding the public school, it’s poor form to argue to go to private if you don’t like how the public school is run.

I had a good chuckle when you said the public schools are responsible to the kids, as if the principle and the school board ever reported to the “kids”. Ultimately they report to the voters, or the voters that care most about education, also known as parents. It would be great if my tax dollars were marked with my kids name in the form of a voucher to take wherever I please. Then I have more power to decide the curriculum, the quality of teachers, and even when my kid starts kindergarten.
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