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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are some people so obsessed with redshirting anyway?[/quote]

Every parent I've known who redshirted thought long and hard about it. [/quote]

Yeah, they thought about what was in it for their kid. What they didn't consider was how it would harm their kid's younger classmates.[/quote]

Look, if you are a single mom living on food stamps, and you are forced to put your child in school as early as possible for the free childcare, or you are worried about kids starting at an older age because you know that high school drop out rates correlate with age rather than grade, then, yeah, I understand why redshirting raises your blood pressure and makes you want to riot.

But if you are an MC/UMC parent like 98% of the posters on DCUM, then take a look at your own child, and if you feel they are being harmed by their current class placement, change it.  Advocate for your child to be held back, go to private school for a year and repeat a grade, pull them out and homeschool, etc.  I don’t see why you would keep a child in a situation that you know is actively harming them.  [/quote]

DP. I don't think the weird competition-obsessed troll has kids, based on prior posts. At least, I sure hope not.

What she doesn't get is that her crazed posts are making pro-redshirting arguments far more effectively than any pro-redshirting poster. I did not redshirt and reading DCUM has made me very pro-redshirting. DCUM opponents come across as genuinely nuts. [/quote]

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