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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redshirting and/or repeating a grade (hold back) before entering private school has been around for more than 50 years.  No need for 50 pages.  This phenomenon is rather customary.  We don't call it redshirting.[/quote]

So you are saying that private school academics is over inflated.  We should compare all private schools education to public schools education from one grade  earlier.  I guess this makes magnet programs, and elite publics look that much better.  I'm sure there is data on average age of public student vs private just like there was a recent report on the average age of public students has increased they believe it is due to redshirting and timing their pregnancy near the cut-off (which seams far fetched to me).[/quote]

White Americans are the greatest advocates of redshirting, and no they do not call it holding back or redshirting. It is a tradition that schools, both public and private, are forcing on people who do not support the concept. Private and public schools advocate it all over Montgomery County. I have personally visited 26 of them to find a school for my son to attend in the Fall of 2012. All except 4 of the schools recommended redshirting as the best thing for boy children.

Many of the redshirters send the boys to private schools for multiple years of preschool including formal Kindergarden programs, then send them to public schools after they have already completed Kindergarden once or twice. The reasons they tell you they do it are the boys get a chance to grow larger and stronger to have a competitive advantage to play sports. The other reasons they say it is a good idea is they want to prevent their boys from being bullied, by letting them grow bigger and older; and they want the boys to be more "mature". The funny thing is - the redshirted boys I know are still being bullied in MoCo Kindergarden classes. Also, it is not surprising they do well academically in Kindergarden, afterall, they are repeating the same class 2 and 3 years.

I am not judging anyone, just sharing what I am being told by redshirters' parents in Montgomery County. I can't really say if I think it is right, wrong, or really matters if they are happy with it. I do believe the tradition is quite mainstream, though.[/quote]

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