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Anonymous wrote:There may not be a more disgruntled group of DCUMers that those who chose to send their kids to school "on time."

Nonsense. As one who did not need to hold my kids back, I feel sorry for your large, socially inept children.

Yeah. Not bitter at all. Ha!

Anonymous wrote:There may not be a more disgruntled group of DCUMers that those who chose to send their kids to school "on time."

Nonsense. As one who did not need to hold my kids back, I feel sorry for your large, socially inept children.

There may not be a more disgruntled group of DCUMers that those who chose to send their kids to school "on time."

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Anonymous wrote:Great! Then quit the bitching about kids who are redshirted.

Exactly, if pele,believe this study, no one should complain about red shirting not being fair to other kids, because by the logic of this article, the other kids benefit from older classmates.

However, if you are sending your child to two years of public kindergarten, you are costing all of the tax payers more money. If you are going to redshirt so it on your own dime and send your child to private school.

People who redshirt in attempts to gain an advantage, delay sending their kids to school, which does not cost the public schools anything.

It is extremely difficult to get the public schools to repeat K even if your kid has LDs and an IEP. Most kids who repeat grades have LDs. So your point is irrelevant.

NP here and all the redshirting parents I have ever know held their child back in Kindergarten so PP is correct from my standpoint as well. How do you know your child is not socially, emotionally or academically prepared for 1st grade until you are there?

That hasn't been our experience. It is exceedingly difficult to hold a child back in public schools. Most parents send their kid to an extra year of preschool. Or do a year of private K then go to the public school for K.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great! Then quit the bitching about kids who are redshirted.

Exactly, if pele,believe this study, no one should complain about red shirting not being fair to other kids, because by the logic of this article, the other kids benefit from older classmates.

However, if you are sending your child to two years of public kindergarten, you are costing all of the tax payers more money. If you are going to redshirt so it on your own dime and send your child to private school.

People who redshirt in attempts to gain an advantage, delay sending their kids to school, which does not cost the public schools anything.

It is extremely difficult to get the public schools to repeat K even if your kid has LDs and an IEP. Most kids who repeat grades have LDs. So your point is irrelevant.

NP here and all the redshirting parents I have ever know held their child back in Kindergarten so PP is correct from my standpoint as well. How do you know your child is not socially, emotionally or academically prepared for 1st grade until you are there?

I don't have a dog in the red shirting fight, but I wonder a couple things. First, has the fact that it's more common fundamentally changed the nature of how it affects kids such that we can't compare redshirted kids 20 years ago to redshirted kids today. It's one thing to be one significantly older kid among your cohort but if it's so common now maybe the effects (good or bad) are minimized anyway. Also if the younger kids who went to college did better, what happened to the younger kids who didn't go to college? Are they doing better or worse than their peers?

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Anonymous wrote:What about Andrea Zuckerman? She was thirty-one when she was the valedictorian of West Beverly High School?

Lmao!

+1

I just realized who this was! Nicely done, PP.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great! Then quit the bitching about kids who are redshirted.

Exactly, if pele,believe this study, no one should complain about red shirting not being fair to other kids, because by the logic of this article, the other kids benefit from older classmates.

However, if you are sending your child to two years of public kindergarten, you are costing all of the tax payers more money. If you are going to redshirt so it on your own dime and send your child to private school.

People who redshirt in attempts to gain an advantage, delay sending their kids to school, which does not cost the public schools anything.

It is extremely difficult to get the public schools to repeat K even if your kid has LDs and an IEP. Most kids who repeat grades have LDs. So your point is irrelevant.

I do think that the fear of temporary struggle and the over-reactions that our sometimes too attentive parenting results in are detrimental to our children.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great! Then quit the bitching about kids who are redshirted.

Exactly, if pele,believe this study, no one should complain about red shirting not being fair to other kids, because by the logic of this article, the other kids benefit from older classmates.

However, if you are sending your child to two years of public kindergarten, you are costing all of the tax payers more money. If you are going to redshirt so it on your own dime and send your child to private school.

Anonymous wrote:Great! Then quit the bitching about kids who are redshirted.

Exactly, if pele,believe this study, no one should complain about red shirting not being fair to other kids, because by the logic of this article, the other kids benefit from older classmates.

We are red-shirting because our twins are emotionally and socially immature.

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Anonymous wrote:What about Andrea Zuckerman? She was thirty-one when she was the valedictorian of West Beverly High School?

Lmao!

+1

Great! Then quit the bitching about kids who are redshirted.

Anonymous wrote:What about Andrea Zuckerman? She was thirty-one when she was the valedictorian of West Beverly High School?

Lmao!