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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The solution to the redshirting debate - the ONLY solution - is to do all athletic testing, training and competitions according to year of birth instead of school year, and to normalize all standardized test scores based on month of birth.

That way, people can put their kids in the classes where they are learning best, but all kids are evaluated fairly with respect to each other.

In other countries, athletics is already set up for birth year. But since the stakes are so high here with scholarships to ridiculously expensive colleges then they can go a step further and look at month too.

Basically you need to take away as many advantages as possible and make the decision purely about where and with whom particular kids learn best.[/quote]

I don't object to this, but i would suggest another answer is to allow for rolling school starts and sub-divide grades by age. It might be complex, but we put a man on the moon, we can do hard things like reinvent our tired ass education system. clearly having 18 months difference between kids in a grade group doesn't work. Neither does having 12 months difference, which the current system does, without red shirting. Many of those who red-shirt are doing so to correct for the disadvantage to their kids built into the system. There used to be a kindergarten readiness standard. But now we start plowing kids into all day, every day schooling at 3 or earlier, far before it is developmentally appropriate and then consider that some people, with mid Sept bdays, are sending their TWO year olds to this in order to secure the place at school. It's gotten crazy. School is broken, red-shirting is a symptom, not the disease. [/quote]

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