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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redshirting -- an American cultural norm?  Resounding yes, for the American leisure class

Redshirting is a luxury for America's leisure class.  Those with disposable income and time.  This phenomenon was the rule rather than the exception in elite NE boarding schools 50 years age (still is).  As members of this leisure class began to settle for private metropolitan day schools and wealthy suburban public schools for their children this habit has spread to these enterprises.

The redshirting phenomena is an anathema in inner city schools and children of recent immigrants to America.  Public school in the inner city provides a respite for struggling inner city parents (a free babby sitting service mandated by law).  These families cannot afford to redshirt their children (even if they somehow wanted to, and they don't).  Children of recent immigrants are prepared to compete for a place at America's table.  The ages of the entitled ones do not engender fear and paranoia in the classroom.  These kids assume American kids are naturally taller and bigger from a steady and plentiful American diet (and the best healthcare system on earth).

These immigrant children largely compete making no excuses for age, height, weight, lack of special educational accommodations in schools and on standardized tests.  They do not perceive themselves at a disadvantage because some kids are older and bigger; or taking performance enhancing drugs, or getting accommodations for examinations.  Many feel aptly honored and privileged to compete...and compete they do.[/quote]

It's not just poor children, inner city children, and immigrants who do not redshirt. It seems white Americans, in particular, are supporters of this tactic. Even American Blacks who have abundant income and highly educated ones do not support the concept. White Americans with lower incomes also redshirt, for the same reasons 20:33 listed. What is the point of it? This is insteresting.[/quote]

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