I resdshirted a March birthday. My kid is an only, I am not lazy and my kid’s education is the most important gift I can give her. She is going full day, in person to Junior K. She may skip regular K if the private school evaluation recommends that. Distance learning is a joke for the very ones. I would rather her be the older smartest than younger dumbest in class.

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s son turned five on June 1, THE cutoff day to redshirt in our district. She’s redshirting because, what’s the point. If he had been born a few hours earlier, it wouldn’t be an option. As it stands now, he will be 6 years, 3 months when he starts K in 2021. Seems old. Maybe not. Will most redshirt if it’s an option for them this year?

6 years is old for K? Huh? My kid just turned 6 and started kindergarten, his birthday is 3 days after the cutoff. He's one of the oldest but totally within range of kids starting K.

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Anonymous wrote:We are homeschooling our K kid this year. FWIW we have one redshirted kid with a mid September birthday. We wouldn’t have held back any other child with a summer birthday, much less spring! That’s crazy! Our redshirter started K at age 5...

I’m just laughing that you justify your redshirting but not others.

Why? I said we held back our 4 year old one year from K. He would have been 4 for over the first month of school. I feel like it was justified. I wouldn’t have done it had he been 5 by the start of school. I think it’s crazy to hold back spring birthdays now. Because that’s what some people are proposing.

The real winners will be people redshirted last year and have an older kindergartener this year. This missed out on the disaster last spring and this class will be much less competitive when apply for college, due to low numbers. Still not great to start kindergarten virtually, but if you have a SAHP to make it possible, the payoff could be big in the end.

We made the last minute decision to redshirt our daughter. Her birthday is only a couple of days before the cutoff though. Her preschool was play based so she barely knew the alphabet. Virtual learning just seemed like torture for her and me (my husband and I both work). She’s doing a victory lap at preschool. Had she been an early summer birthday we probably would have done private kinder (so many early childhood centers have added classes this year). If you could afford private kinder (we toured one that was $1400) a month I have no idea why you would do virtual for a year though I really hope I’m proven wrong on the year part.

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s son turned five on June 1, THE cutoff day to redshirt in our district. She’s redshirting because, what’s the point. If he had been born a few hours earlier, it wouldn’t be an option. As it stands now, he will be 6 years, 3 months when he starts K in 2021. Seems old. Maybe not. Will most redshirt if it’s an option for them this year?

That's pretty normal for boys in our school (LCPS) for June or later birthdays. Its not unheard of for people to reshirt an April or May either.

Anonymous wrote:My friend’s son turned five on June 1, THE cutoff day to redshirt in our district. She’s redshirting because, what’s the point. If he had been born a few hours earlier, it wouldn’t be an option. As it stands now, he will be 6 years, 3 months when he starts K in 2021. Seems old. Maybe not. Will most redshirt if it’s an option for them this year?

Why do you care? Why are you obsessed with this topic? Why aren't you getting therapy?

If my youngest son was starting K this year, I would have seriously considered red-shirting, or just skipping K and begged my mom to live with us for the year (she is a retired teacher). He’s a mid-June baby and is usually the youngest. He would just be the oldest and would be 6 the entire school year.

I come from a European country where K starts at age 6 so I don't event think about this as redshirting... I think each kid should be given the option to go at 5 or 6 depending on their unique personality and situation.

YES.

Anonymous wrote:We are homeschooling our K kid this year. FWIW we have one redshirted kid with a mid September birthday. We wouldn’t have held back any other child with a summer birthday, much less spring! That’s crazy! Our redshirter started K at age 5...

I’m just laughing that you justify your redshirting but not others.

I would absolutely do the same. Redshirted my late July bday son with no regrets all these years later.

I held back my kid. He has an August birthday and will (hopefully) start K next school year about a week after he turns 6. I’m not putting my kid through some thrown-together “Virtual Kindergarten.” Heck no. If he was too old to redshirt I’d have found a day care or church preschool that was expanding to include a K class and sent him there instead, then to public 1st.

We are homeschooling our K kid this year. FWIW we have one redshirted kid with a mid September birthday. We wouldn’t have held back any other child with a summer birthday, much less spring! That’s crazy! Our redshirter started K at age 5...

Anonymous wrote:Those who can, should. And I hate redshirting. It's skewing things to your kid's advantage. And that goes against every rule of good parenting. But these are not ordinary times. I would redshirt this year if I was faced with the decision and not feel quilty at all.

I agree with this though I didn’t redshirt my kindergartner this year either. She will be 6 in December and I thought the better option long term is not for her to be so old for the grade. That said I have the privilege of being able to afford private K this year. We are a dual working family household and I know virtual K will be so miserable.