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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feel bad for the kids of the parents on this thread. Redshirting screams "I don't accept my kid for the person they are." And those parents are going to be *so* disappointed when redshirting (inevitable) fails to transform their child into the child they hoped for.  [/quote]

I accept my son for who he was. I don't accept the public school system that demands 5 year old boys sit still for hours on end doing worksheets. The education system is the problem, not my kid. Hence he will repeat PreK.[/quote]

No kindergarten class sits for hours doing worksheets, that’s ridiculous.   Repeating pre-k will bore a bright kid and kindergarten will happen, just a year later.  [/quote]

A day in a kindergarten classroom or pre-k classroom is generally so chaotic with lots of lining up to go to recess, wash hands, go to lunch,  so much noise, crying, laughing, etc no kid is really bored the whole time. And if they are bored it’s probably because their parents drilled them to death with boring worksheets to teach them everything in advance just to make the experience worse? [/quote]

Neither the preschool or kindergarten classrooms for my kids were "so chaotic." They were both nurturing, enjoyable environments. But they would have been bored in their preschool classroom largely because they were both starting to sound out words and phrases by the summer before K and knew their numbers and could do very basic addition and subtraction. My experience is that preschool would not have offered any enrichment in these areas, because that's just not the focus of preschool. Whereas their K classroom offered daily phonics instruction and small group lessons in math and reading, and this opened up a whole new world for them in terms of understanding the world around them. I don't know why I would delay that a full year.

Nothing against redshirting, there are of course kids who are not ready for K. But also there are definitely kids who are ready with K (even with summer birthdays, both my kids have summer birthdays) and if there isn't a tangible reason to hold back I have no idea why you would? K is really great.[/quote]

Clearly you have never spent a single day in these classrooms. I used to volunteer in a classroom and I have no idea how those teachers did it day in and day out. If you’re used to working with adults all day, spending a day in a K classroom not remotely the same. Nobody is saying hold back every kid for no reason but certainly some want to eliminate the possibility of choice for all kids. And nobody is denying these kids anything, they will get to K when they get there and have an extra year of childhood to explore, wonder, and do what kids do. There’s no prize for finishing the youngest in class.

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