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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Wrong, wrong, wrong. It's a decision made by competitive, nervous parents who are worried because everyone else is doing it. They don't want their child to be the youngest in the class by over a year. I have three kids in private schools and everyone else knows this. Also it helps the schools because they want an even playing field. They want to hold back kids who can't sit still and can't keep up academically. They want to tell prospective families all about their bright kindergarten students who are excelling at reading - and they want to push ahead test scores.

As for physicians - I hope you're not talking about pediatricians. Because I'm friends with several pedis, and they would never, ever get into the issues of redshirting. They say they are not qualified to make decisions like that, unless a child has serious developmental issues. In which case they would normally recommend a specialist or childhood psychologist. [/quote]

As a physician redtrousered by a parent physician (psychiatrist) I was "redtrousered" by 2 to 3 years ahead of my classmates.  Enjoyed my educational journey without any hiccups.

My children similarly have required redtrousering by 1 to 2 years.  Both going to 5th and 2nd with the school still finding a need to subject accelerate in certain subjects.

Despite being both a parent and physician for these kids, from your logic, I am not qualified to make decisions about their need for redshirting or redtrousering.  Wrong, wrong, wrong.  I am more qualified than you about decisions to hold my child back, move him forward or keep him where he is (in every sense of word, physically, medically, socially and intellectually).  You simply are clueless if you think the only information you need to appropriately assign a child a class or grade is his birth certificate...akin to evaluating a patient without performing a history, physical examination and appropriate laboratory investigations ( tests for those petrified by the term) but relying on the age for a diagnosis and therapy.

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