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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a normal, bright child, then redshirting seems crazy. They're going to be bored repeating the same grade, they should be with children at similar maturity levels and you're going to give the kid an inferiority complex. [b]They're going to wonder why they were held back when kids who are the same age moved ahead[/b]. [/quote]

Do you think parents don’t talk to bright four and five year olds? If you ask my daughter why she is in preK another year she’ll tell you it’s to learn more of her second language and do more global travel. She’s not weeping about being “held back”[/quote]

Are you seriously asking me to take a preschooler's word for it? [/quote]

Makes a heck of a lot more sense than taking some random angry person on the internet’s word for how a hypothetical kid she’s never met and doesn’t care about feels. [/quote]

DP but no one should take the word of a preschooler who claims they need to repeat preschool in order to focus on "global travel" and burnish her second language. That's idiotic.[/quote]

If you say so, but that’s what she’s doing instead of looking at a computer in a room full of kids more than a year older than her, which is what she’d be doing if we sent “on time”. Make whatever choices for your kids you want but you’re not going to somehow convince me my bilingual, well traveled, literate five year old is somehow a victim.[/quote]

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