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Which is why most people don't do it.  Its only privates around here and some higher SES publics.[/quote]

And I always wonder about redshirting complaints from people who send their children to a private school. This is a school that you choose to pay a lot of money to, so that your child can go there! If you're so upset about its redshirting policies, why are you doing that?[/quote]

I think parents who are new to the environment don't realize it's the trend.

Additionally, for me a lot of my frustration is based on Kindergarten now being inappropriate for the age of children who are meant to attend. We're not graduating high school seniors who are more educated. In fact, our colleges are saying they are having to provide more and more remedial classes. So what's the point of making the early grades age inappropriate if there is no long term benefit? If HS had become the new BA/BS, then I could perhaps understand. But it hasn't. It's gone the other direction.[/quote]

There are more remedial classes because more people are attending college. Those people probably wouldn't have gone to college in the past.[/quote]

That's one reason, yes. Even with that, however, we're not getting colleges saying how wonderful their applicants are nowadays. How well the overly-academic focus of the early grades is paying off. Because it's not. We're forcing our youngest children to perform at levels that are inappropriate and spend their days in classroom environments that are inappropriate, and at the end of the day our HS graduates are no better off than they were when Kindergarten was about learning how to share with friends and tie your shoes.

We're ending up with environments where parents of perfectly average children feel a need to redshirt them if their birthday is within three months of the cut off date, simply so they won't be labeled a bad child or a stupid child when the child is simply a perfectly average child. Additionally it makes the environment that much more toxic for SN children who even if redshirted are still being held to higher standards than are appropriate for the stated age the environment is intended to be for. No one, except the children who are gifted academically and socially, is benefiting. And even those children are being failed later in their education when the high standards they were held to in early elementary fall away to easily attainable average standards in later grades.[/quote]

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