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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So again, how old is too old? If 6y8m isn’t too old to start K, how old is? This is not a rhetorical question - I’d like to hear answers from redshirt supporters.[/quote]

I am strongly in favor of flexibility because from what I see, most parents have a decent sense of their child's readiness. I guess you could say it's pro-redshirting but what I am really in favor of is flexibility. Some kids strongly benefit by an earlier start, some by a later start. (I think this strict cookie cutter date approach is bananas.) It doesn't surprise me that the only large-scale study of the impact of relative age on ADHD medication/diagnosis where relative age didn't correlate to diagnosis was from the Netherlands, which is very flexible about starting year and allows for a lot of parental discretion. IMO that model is much better. Anti-redshirt DCUM posters are all about crazy slippery slope arguments, but I doubt that would happen in practice.

To answer your specific question, I think having a rule that kids have to be in school by the time they are seven is reasonable. Alternatively I think a two-year age range would be okay: you can elect entry in one of two years. I think in practice this how things work in the Netherlands: kids are given a wide starting age range from 5-7. It seems like a reasonable approach.

My child (not redshirted) was in a class with a child who was redshirted because of SNs, February birth. There were also other redshirted kids. It was fine. I saw literally none of the supposedly horrid impacts that DCUM's stressed-out anti-redshirt posters said would happen. Kids didn't care, parents (at least the sane, normal ones I hung out with) didn't care. Parents made the right choice as far as I could tell. It was NBD.[/quote]

Way too reasonable. [/quote]

So MUST be in school by the 7th birthday? Or have the entire year of 7 to start? Ie: could start at 7.5 because that is technically still 7? What if a kid's birthday is in August? They'd have to start by 6 because they'd turn 7 the following August? What if a kid's birthday is in October? They can be 6y11m when they start?  At some point you are going to have to make an arbitrary cutoff. At some point you cannot just be "flexible" because some parents are always going to take advantage of that. When my first kids started and I heard of June kids redshirting I thought THAT was bananas. Now OP is talking about January and people are like "cool." So it stands to reason that as each older age becomes normalized, the new reshirting age will just get older and older?[/quote]

You sound too irrational to have a discussion with. Sorry. [/quote]

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