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[quote=Anonymous]But what she doesn't really establish is causality.  Are we red-shirting because the curriculum has been accelerated or accelerating because we've been red-shirting.

In the public school context, acceleration seems to have come first/independently.  And I certainly see demands for it coming from parents.  (I also suspect it's not unrelated to the fact that in some demographics (e.g. ours), K is not when "school" begins for most children, so its traditional function has changed.)

The red-shirted kids in DC's PreK/K were not among the kids who were most academically advanced (i.e. who, on this blogger's logic, would be setting the pace).  And it was a PreK/K situation, so the curriculum and teachers were designed for a group whose ages ranged over more than 2 years.

Honestly, much of this conversation has seemed unhinged from at least the local private school reality I've encountered.   The K curriculum doesn't involve sitting still, shutting up, and reading.  The older kids aren't the natural leaders or ahead of the pack academically.   Either we're talking different schools or it's a situation where some red-shirting parents drive other parents (of smaller boys with Spring birthdays) slightly crazy in advance of actual experience.  [/quote]

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