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My point is this.  How can a system be dumbed down when it is "accelerated" to begin with?  In our day, kids skipped a grade, but the curriculum was more "age-appropriate" in my opinion. Today in this area, pre K is more akin to K in our day and K is more akin to 1st grade in our generation.  So the curriculum already starts the kids off on an accelerated track. All I am saying is that perfectly capable kids are not ready for an accelerated curriculum at 5.  So, if schools are not going to change the curriculum, why not put kids where they fit best academically?  [/quote]

While it sounds reasonable, in practice, it impacts the social and other aspects of the classroom.  Teachers are stretched to meet the wide academic and social needs of the students.  Also, for example, the kids who are red-shirted cannot participate on the grade-wide soccer teams, baseball teams, etc because they don't meet the league cut-offs.  It isolates the kids and also hampers the right age kids from being able to field full teams.[/quote]

I guess I am confused.  You will get the "wide academic need" issue in any classroom - especially in an age level based classroom. But I thought  the purpose of redshirting was to put the kids where there is a closer fit academically. I mean a 6YO 1st grader is going to be taught from the same lesson plans as a 7.5 YO first grader.  Am I wrong?  Also, as far as athletics go, people in this thread have said that parents have redshirted kids so they are bigger and stronger athletically.  If they are not allowed to play at that grade, then why do it? Actually, I thought the opposite was true. Folks were redshirting so that they could have the older kid playing on the grade based team. I know that is the case in MS.

I can understand that there may be social issues.  But I also think that folks are overstating the potential impact also.  But...oh well.[/quote]

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