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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redshirting at the publics gives very little academic advantage in my experience. (I know privates are different, and I understand it's a different educational experience, with different norms and expectations, and classes carefully selected to weed out problem kids.) If you are considering redshirting for public, maybe you would be better off at a private, where it would actually make some difference. A public elementary generally will not provide differentiation for kids who are advanced are ahead of their peers.[/quote]

Your experience seems to be limited if you can’t understand that parents could want to redshirt their kids for any reason besides gaining an advantage, academic or otherwise, over their peers.  Have you considered that they may have troubles that the parents are hoping to mitigate by postponing K for a year to minimize the DISadvantages they would otherwise face?

Moreover, many kids (redshirted or not) would be better off at a private, but that doesn’t make it any more accessible to the majority of families, who just can’t afford it.[/quote]

Obviously there are other very good and totally valid reasons for redshirting, but that doesnt change the fact that, say, a third of the redshirting cases are more about parental anxiety over their child's achievement. All I'm saying is that redshirting so your child can be top dog at a middling public school is foolish. I am pro redshirting for kids who actually need it, not these dumb strivers.[/quote]

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