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[quote=Anonymous]This is an issue where people are missing the forest for the trees. It reminds me of the vaccine issue, where decisions by individual families are starting to have implications for the entire group.

The vast majority of redshirted children are wealthy, white males. This should send up a million red flags for anyone who is parenting any child who is not a privileged, white boy or anyone who cares about bridging the achievement gap. Are we seriously going to allow the system to be co-opted in such a way to confer MORE privilege on white men???? Are poor kids doomed to always be the youngest in the class because their parents can't afford to exploit the loophole? Are girls all doomed to be in the lowest reading groups because the boys are a full year older?

If your child is not ready for public K, by all means, opt out. Put them in private K or keep them home. Use whatever supports you need to get them to where they can succeed in public school. But then you should be required to put your child in first grade.

If you can't get your kid up to speed by first grade, perhaps you need an IEP or a different school. But parents absolutely should not be able to manipulate the public school system to try to give their kids an advantage. Just because that is not what YOU are doing, doesn't mean that is not what everyone else is doing!

PS. I think that a case could be made for redshirting or promoting kids on the extreme edges of the cutoffs either way. Also the preemie kids, of course. But this generalized "all September boys should be redshirted" stuff is extremely worrisome.[/quote]

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