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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

DP but this makes no sense. There's nothing about these parents that say they give a single fig about DCPS as a whole. The only defining characteristics they have demonstrated in their interviews are self interest and entitlement.

This. They're fighting their UNW school to give their own kid an advantage and even wrote the proposed rules to slam the door behind them in two years. They don't care about DCPS or kids EotP. They care singularly about their children and only their children. And frankly given she's running around telling every news outlet her almost six year old doesn't know the alphabet, stuff that will live on the Internet for a good long time, I'm questioning how much the kid's best interest is really at play here.

She gives communications strategists a bad name. I cannot, under any circumstances, imagine disparaging my child, their intelligence and my faith in their abilities to multiple news outlets, with an interestingly increasing level of hysteria. I genuinely feel bad for that kid and the brother (who also gets drug through the mud as being a redshirt who was still not prepared for school despite being held back) … it’s shocking she can’t see that these interviews will only serve to haunt them as they get older.

You don’t think she’d call her journalist friends if Trump tries to take over?

It doesn’t matter. You can call yours.

This woman said not one iota about the $1b Trump and Republicans are preventing DC from using at the expense of our schools.

So even if this woman were, as PP said, Olivia Pope she's done not a single thing to help a child not her own in this city. She is instead playing right into the hands of those who hate our city the most. So no she's not someone you want on your side to help engage DCPS any more than Amy Coney Barrett is someone you want on your side for women's rights simply because she's a woman.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

DP but this makes no sense. There's nothing about these parents that say they give a single fig about DCPS as a whole. The only defining characteristics they have demonstrated in their interviews are self interest and entitlement.

This. They're fighting their UNW school to give their own kid an advantage and even wrote the proposed rules to slam the door behind them in two years. They don't care about DCPS or kids EotP. They care singularly about their children and only their children. And frankly given she's running around telling every news outlet her almost six year old doesn't know the alphabet, stuff that will live on the Internet for a good long time, I'm questioning how much the kid's best interest is really at play here.

She gives communications strategists a bad name. I cannot, under any circumstances, imagine disparaging my child, their intelligence and my faith in their abilities to multiple news outlets, with an interestingly increasing level of hysteria. I genuinely feel bad for that kid and the brother (who also gets drug through the mud as being a redshirt who was still not prepared for school despite being held back) … it’s shocking she can’t see that these interviews will only serve to haunt them as they get older.

You don’t think she’d call her journalist friends if Trump tries to take over?

It doesn’t matter. You can call yours.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

DP but this makes no sense. There's nothing about these parents that say they give a single fig about DCPS as a whole. The only defining characteristics they have demonstrated in their interviews are self interest and entitlement.

This. They're fighting their UNW school to give their own kid an advantage and even wrote the proposed rules to slam the door behind them in two years. They don't care about DCPS or kids EotP. They care singularly about their children and only their children. And frankly given she's running around telling every news outlet her almost six year old doesn't know the alphabet, stuff that will live on the Internet for a good long time, I'm questioning how much the kid's best interest is really at play here.

She gives communications strategists a bad name. I cannot, under any circumstances, imagine disparaging my child, their intelligence and my faith in their abilities to multiple news outlets, with an interestingly increasing level of hysteria. I genuinely feel bad for that kid and the brother (who also gets drug through the mud as being a redshirt who was still not prepared for school despite being held back) … it’s shocking she can’t see that these interviews will only serve to haunt them as they get older.

You don’t think she’d call her journalist friends if Trump tries to take over?

It doesn’t matter. You can call yours.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

DP but this makes no sense. There's nothing about these parents that say they give a single fig about DCPS as a whole. The only defining characteristics they have demonstrated in their interviews are self interest and entitlement.

This. They're fighting their UNW school to give their own kid an advantage and even wrote the proposed rules to slam the door behind them in two years. They don't care about DCPS or kids EotP. They care singularly about their children and only their children. And frankly given she's running around telling every news outlet her almost six year old doesn't know the alphabet, stuff that will live on the Internet for a good long time, I'm questioning how much the kid's best interest is really at play here.

She gives communications strategists a bad name. I cannot, under any circumstances, imagine disparaging my child, their intelligence and my faith in their abilities to multiple news outlets, with an interestingly increasing level of hysteria. I genuinely feel bad for that kid and the brother (who also gets drug through the mud as being a redshirt who was still not prepared for school despite being held back) … it’s shocking she can’t see that these interviews will only serve to haunt them as they get older.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

DP but this makes no sense. There's nothing about these parents that say they give a single fig about DCPS as a whole. The only defining characteristics they have demonstrated in their interviews are self interest and entitlement.

This. They're fighting their UNW school to give their own kid an advantage and even wrote the proposed rules to slam the door behind them in two years. They don't care about DCPS or kids EotP. They care singularly about their children and only their children. And frankly given she's running around telling every news outlet her almost six year old doesn't know the alphabet, stuff that will live on the Internet for a good long time, I'm questioning how much the kid's best interest is really at play here.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

DP but this makes no sense. There's nothing about these parents that say they give a single fig about DCPS as a whole. The only defining characteristics they have demonstrated in their interviews are self interest and entitlement.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

It sounds like Avra is exactly the kind of person you want fighting for DCPS, not against.

Central office being laid-off, threat of Trump’s involvement in DCPS loom, and elite support, which was already low, only falls.

Good job DCPS, and good luck.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

OK, Avra.
Tell it to your reporter friends.
Maybe your kid is not in competition with anyone but you sure seem to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

If for whatever reason you think my kid is in competition with your kid, that’s very funny to me. They’re not in competition.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

Yes. This is the point. Both wealthy DC and Texas parents want their kids to redshirt for advantages, just different advantages. It's just the Texas parents are upfront about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if these parents devoted as much energy to getting their kids IEPs or tutoring instead of trying to get them enrolled in kindergarten. If their kids are really so much slower at learning than other kids in the neighborhood, what magic do they think is going to happen in kindergarten?

It's really obvious the kids have no special needs and the parents know it. They don't want to get their kid an IEP or a tutor, they want their son to effortlessly excel and be told by every teacher that he's the very smartest, the tallest, the cleverest, the most impressive kid in the grade. If it's not looking like something that's going to happen organically they'll just put them in a class with younger kids so they "stand out" the way mom and dad wanted/expected them to.

It's funny because I'm from Texas where redshirting parents are *extremely* upfront about this - they want their sons to have the height/weight/testosterone/muscle advantage when they get to high school so they can start on their sports teams and maybe even get a scholarship. In DC people want the same thing - an unearned advantage for their son - but twist themselves into pretzels to pretend that they aren't trying to rig the system. In fact, they pretend the system is the unfair thing! How could they say that kids with a certain birthday should enroll by a certain date and then . . . have the nerve to enforce it??! Rules that apply to other kids also apply to my kid? How is that fair? Not for my dear Henry!

Texas is NOT DC. Name one wealthy parent who cares about football. Most won’t even let their children play football

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Anonymous wrote:So this is only happening at Lafayette? Why do these parents keep getting airtime?

These parents keep getting airtime because they are trying to get airtime. Parents at other schools have sensibly kept their mouth shut and have been able to quietly convince their principals to allow the redshirting. But you can’t bow to a public tantrum.

Anonymous wrote:“I’ve lost faith in our public schools,” says parent trying to get another year of public school.