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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get a little bitter about it with my developmentally delayed May bday boy who will be starting K in early August. Because he has an IEP, he needs to start K on time, or else he loses his services. I do wish that, where at-will redshirting is allowed, special needs kids could be included. [/quote]

Those are the ones who should be allowed to red-shirt. It is abused by parents for selfish reasons. [/quote]

What are you talking about? The refrain from anti-redshirters is to always send everyone on time so they get the services they need in school. Are you now admitting that redshirting can be helpful for some kids?[/quote]

But the refrain from the OP of this thread, and many of us in agreement, is not "send on time." It's that there should be broad leeway within a few months of a cutoff for parents to make that choice themselves based on maturity and their assessment of readiness, but that outside that time period, you should have to make a formal request to redshirt and there should be a more concrete reason than "he doesn't seem ready" or "he's small for his age." Because at some point, it does become burdensome to have such a broad age range in a single classroom.

I am tired of the conversations about redshirting on this website being viewed in such black and white terms. I am not anti-redshirt at all (the opposite, sometimes I think it's imperative that people redshirt) but I get call anti-redshirt on this website because my position is not that anyone should be able to redshirt at any time. I also don't trust all parents to make good choices, which is why I support a system with some limits that would still allow for redshirting when it is really important, but prevent the minority of parents who are just trying to game the system in a misguided attempt to get their kid an advantage.

We could have a reasonable discussion, but now you're just going to scream at me that I'm an "anti-redshirter" because you have this weird belief that the only two positions here are "no redshirting ever" or "redshirt forever, if a person wants their kid to be 8 years old in 1st grade, that is their business." But the reality is that almost no one actually holds either of those positions except the handful of total whack jobs on this site.[/quote]

It’s entirely unreasonable to demand the institution of an entire bureaucratic system to deal with your own anxieties. No matter how much you want to style yourself as “reasonable,” you aren’t. That’s your core problem, frankly: you view yourself as “reasonable” but your position is wildly unreasonable and remarkably entitled and demanding, and given that, I suspect your analysis with respect to the impact of redshirting is similarly distorted.

I’m sure you’ll tell me I am “screaming” now. [/quote]

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