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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD is in 4th grade, she’s a summer birthday sent on time, so she will be 9 all year. She’s done well in school, very social, no big issues. DH and I were both fall birthdays and gifted and often bored, so that factored heavily into not holding her back. We are ok with her being smart, but fine if she’s not “gifted” .

However, our neighbor who is die hard redshirting, obviously held back her summer birthday kid. She’s over a year older than my daughter and they are in the sane grade.

The mom won’t shut up about how “gifted” her kid is (she’s definitely smart) and goes on and on about how bored her kid is. She also got on her kids teacher to develop a different curriculum just for her kid because she’s “so smart and so bored”. I feel so bad for her teacher.

I bite my tongue, but she keeps talking about it. I’m tempted to point that her kid really should be in the grade above… also she’s die hard redshirting due to social issues and ironically, her kid is so awkward. The extra year did her no favors.

If she wasn’t so condescending, always spouting off about “the gift of time” because of redshirting…  and acting like only poor people who can’t afford to send their kid to another year of preschool,  are the ones that send their summer kids on time- I’d continue to ignore her, but   I’m over it… how would you respond? [/quote]

NP. You are a nasty piece of work. Why do DCUM anti-redshirters seem to have such paltry social skills? It is truly bizarre.

I did not redshirt, before you predictably claim I did. I’m just fascinated by the weirdo anti-redshirters on DCUM. [/quote]

Op here… how am I a nasty piece of work?[/quote]

Ignore them, OP. There are some overly sensitive people who redshirted their kids thinking their kids would be at the top of the heap, and are now very bitter and disappointed that reality did not match the fantasy. They realize now that [b]the academic, behavioral and social-emotional problems that prompted them to redshirt their children[/b] in the first place have not been magically cured. And in many cases the problems are made worse. (E.g. kids getting bullied for being too old for the grade.) It is sad, but not your problem. People who are on the fence about redshirting should read these bitter Betty posts and consider that redshirting is probably not going to solve their children's problems. [/quote]

Well, I didn’t redshirt my kid, in fact have a very young for grade kid, and I think OP is a nasty piece of work. Just the attacks on the child alone would make me think that, but the malicious glee that leaks out of her post is really gross. I hope that poor child is safe around OP.

Of course, I also think you are likely a nasty nightmare of a gossiper. Who writes stuff like the bolded about other people’s children? You people are disgraceful, and probably incapable of teaching empathy or kindness to your own kids. [/quote]

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