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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 "[b]no redshirting ever" or "redshirt forever, if a person wants their kid to be 8 years old in 1st grade, that is their business.[/b]" 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]

What about “send your kid to school by six” which is literally the law? Why is that not sufficient for you?[/quote]

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