Anonymous wrote:Class size shouldn't be a concern. It doesn't mean that your kindergartener is going to be in a class full of 30 kids, it just means there will be 6 kindergarten classes instead of 4 next year.

I would also think about if you want to just skip Kindergarten and start your child in first grade. In many states, kindergarten isn't actually required. You can skip it next year and either "homeschool" or keep him in daycare (although he may be suuuuuper bored) and then start him with kids his own age in first grade the following year. We know a LOT of people doing that this year - their kids will just start first grade next year.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure what kindergarten will look like next year (recess? circle time? etc), and I'm nervous about the amount of people who redshirted this year making next year's cohort huge. Would it be crazy to redshirt next year? DC has a spring birthday but is tall, but has some speech disorders we're dealing with in speech therapy.

Definitely hold him back. Focus on speech. Then he can work on social skills in k when he’s better able to engage with his peers.

Anonymous wrote:Our four year old is in half day pre-K this year (remote at a private school), and we have always been pretty anti-redshirting. He's an August boy, but he's tall, seems bright, and has no problem sitting still and listening, etc. I was expecting to have to go to bat against his school (where most people in our position would redshirt without much thought).

This pandemic though, whew! We're almost definitely going to redshirt him and send him to junior K next year, so he will start "real" K when he has just turned six. If he can easily have a do-over of this year, I'm going to let him have it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you hold back? Recess is your priority? Keep your kid home about 3 more years.

Recess is not a priority, just an example of how socially distanced learning isn't developmentally appropriate for K.

What benefits do you think of redshirting? What "developmentally appropriate" things you plan to do with him at home or at the daycare? How will he feel when he finally enters K but looks and feels much older than the rest of the kids? Is that developmentally appropriate? I know you mean well OP, but the constant redshirting questions have me wondering why would parents not let their kids be and at least give them a chance to be a part of the cohort that they are meant to be. This preemptive negative thinking of how they'll fail in K is baffling.

Kindergarten is a lot more academic then it used to be. There’s a lot of sitting still that is not developmentally appropriate, especially for boys. There are lots of studies on this. There’s a lot of focus on academics, when at the age of five, kids are still learning through play. And all of the developmentally appropriate things that kids do undertake in kindergarten, such as recess, learning together, playing together, learning collaboratively, learning social skills and forming bonds with teachers and friends, are going to be significantly reduced during pandemic.

Oh yeah, the beginning seeds of - boys will be boys. Academics in K is still sort of optional. No one will force your precious little one to write and do math, but he would be encouraged to. Surprise surprise, five year olds all over the world are learning some flavor of remote learning, your special snowflake will survive and might succeed too if you give them a chance.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would you hold back? Recess is your priority? Keep your kid home about 3 more years.

Recess is not a priority, just an example of how socially distanced learning isn't developmentally appropriate for K.

What benefits do you think of redshirting? What "developmentally appropriate" things you plan to do with him at home or at the daycare? How will he feel when he finally enters K but looks and feels much older than the rest of the kids? Is that developmentally appropriate? I know you mean well OP, but the constant redshirting questions have me wondering why would parents not let their kids be and at least give them a chance to be a part of the cohort that they are meant to be. This preemptive negative thinking of how they'll fail in K is baffling.

Kindergarten is a lot more academic then it used to be. There’s a lot of sitting still that is not developmentally appropriate, especially for boys. There are lots of studies on this. There’s a lot of focus on academics, when at the age of five, kids are still learning through play. And all of the developmentally appropriate things that kids do undertake in kindergarten, such as recess, learning together, playing together, learning collaboratively, learning social skills and forming bonds with teachers and friends, are going to be significantly reduced during pandemic.