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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP Here: Thanks for the replies so far.

I have reached out to the registrar of our home elementary school for clarification and I will update this thread when I get a response.

Of course, it seems some of the families affected by this in DC had received assurances they could redshirt and were still not allowed to so a reply from the school is not binding.

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I am a DCPS teacher and MCPS parent. They were not given assurances, they assumed based on previous years happenings and when a new principal came in and followed the clearly stated rule (it was a DCPS rule that the previous principal had been skirting) they got mad.[/quote]
That was the problem; the principals had discretion to bend the rules and this one principal in particular often did. These families had been allowed to redshirt their older children. They didn’t anticipate that principal leaving and a new one refusing to allow redshirting. They redshirted under the old principal, then the new principal came in and wouldn’t allow their kids to enroll in Kindergarten. They were told their kids had to skip K and go straight to 1st grade. Understandably, they weren’t fans of that idea.[/quote]

The DCPS parents were ridiculous.  They thought rules don't apply to them/their special snowflake kids, even when they're written clearly for all to see.[/quote]
The problem stemmed from the old principal who didn’t enforce the rules. The parents just exploited that weakness in the system.[/quote]

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