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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A question about fairness!

How is it fair for red shirted kids to be in a class with my late June birthday kid? Developmentally they are going to be ahead, do the teachers care or take this into consideration?? It doesn't seem fair. Some can be almost 9 months older.[/quote]

In a normal grade, kids should span 12 months. That is how school works. [/quote]

+1000. There are always going to be kids born right before the cut-off and right after. Someone has to be the youngest and someone has to be the oldest in class. If OP is in a district with a typical Sep 1 cut-off date, why is she complaining about her June b-day kid?  There will be younger July and August b-day kids who are not red-shirted. [/quote]

I have September kid.  So, a June kid held back is a big age difference.  [/quote]

Right, the people who tend to be most bothered by redshirting are the parents of kids who are on the young end for the cut-off but don't redshirt.

The cutoff in our district is 9/30. I know a family that redshirted their kid with a May birthday, and that kid is in a classroom with several kids who have August and September birthdays but didn't redshirt. So the redshirted kid is 15-16 months older than the youngest kids in class. In this case, there were developmental reasons for redshirting this kid BUT that doesn't mean it doesn't create issues to have that age gap in class. There are some dynamics at play that are not great, due to this child being significantly bigger and older than a number of children in class.

And that's the rub. It's easy to say "you do what is right for your kid, and I'll do what's right for mine." But when kids share classrooms, your choices impact my kid.[/quote]

It's nuts that schools even allow red shirting for spring b-days.[/quote]

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