Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 17:12     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:Of my son’s last year class out of 12 students, 6 students with May-August birthday decided to stay. That is half of the class. I can’t speak for the other classes


Seems like a bizarre statistical outlier if fully half the kids in a class are born within a 3-4 month span. Or, the school is actually selecting for summer birthdays and wants them.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 16:43     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Of my son’s last year class out of 12 students, 6 students with May-August birthday decided to stay. That is half of the class. I can’t speak for the other classes


This is at NCRC


I can’t help but wonder if this is a money grab since the school costs $32,000/year. Or maybe private school admissions didn’t work and the plan is to try again. Just seems like a lot of kids at one preschool.


It has nothing to do with not being admitted to other schools. Those kids did not apply anywhere at all.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 16:37     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Of my son’s last year class out of 12 students, 6 students with May-August birthday decided to stay. That is half of the class. I can’t speak for the other classes


This is at NCRC


I can’t help but wonder if this is a money grab since the school costs $32,000/year. Or maybe private school admissions didn’t work and the plan is to try again. Just seems like a lot of kids at one preschool.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 16:13     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Of my son’s last year class out of 12 students, 6 students with May-August birthday decided to stay. That is half of the class. I can’t speak for the other classes


This is at NCRC


That leaves out the other half of a Tt/Ex class with Nov-April birthdays — all on schedule. (Not sure where you are putting the Sept/Oct birthdays).

But whatever —weird preschool cut-offs do have some, but not definitive, impact on redshirting. Plenty of NCRC summer birthdays leave or whatever in order to not start K late (my child included).
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 15:28     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:Of my son’s last year class out of 12 students, 6 students with May-August birthday decided to stay. That is half of the class. I can’t speak for the other classes


This is at NCRC
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 15:27     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Of my son’s last year class out of 12 students, 6 students with May-August birthday decided to stay. That is half of the class. I can’t speak for the other classes
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 14:45     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At NCRC half the class (with birthdays from throughout october) was redshirted (the kids will start K when already 6)


same for river school and Temple Sinai school; vast majority of kids did PK as 5 yos in order to start K already 6 yo.


Not true of River.


+1, at least for 3 year olds pulled out for PK. I know about 5 of those and they all started PK at 4 and then went to K at 5 at GDS and Beauvoir.


At NCRC, the way class cut-offs work, kids born May-August who stay for the 3rd year of preschool would then be entering Kindergarten at 6 (ie, redshirts) (on occasion, such a kid will skip K and start at public 1st). But some May-August kids don't stay for the final year and head off to Kindergarten at 5.

So it's not "half the class." It's maybe 1/6 or less of the starting class.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 14:17     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When do you consider redshirting?

What about a micropremie - so she was born in May but developmentally she's behind? I'm really struggling with when to start her... She will be 5 next May, but could really use another year of prek. But we're not UMC, barely MC... Can't really afford another year of pk.


Can you redshirt in K in public school?


Yes
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 14:13     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:When do you consider redshirting?

What about a micropremie - so she was born in May but developmentally she's behind? I'm really struggling with when to start her... She will be 5 next May, but could really use another year of prek. But we're not UMC, barely MC... Can't really afford another year of pk.


Can you redshirt in K in public school?
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 14:04     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At NCRC half the class (with birthdays from throughout october) was redshirted (the kids will start K when already 6)


same for river school and Temple Sinai school; vast majority of kids did PK as 5 yos in order to start K already 6 yo.


Not true of River.


+1, at least for 3 year olds pulled out for PK. I know about 5 of those and they all started PK at 4 and then went to K at 5 at GDS and Beauvoir.


I thought that too, then I saw they did PK at River and then PK again at Big 3, not K. Oh well.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 14:01     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At NCRC half the class (with birthdays from throughout october) was redshirted (the kids will start K when already 6)


If their birthdays are after September they won't be starting when already six. They will be fine then turn six. Unless you are saying they are six turning seven, which I do not believe.


All the ones that stayed were born between May and August


Do some of them go straight to first though if they’re ready?


Not this year
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 13:55     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At NCRC half the class (with birthdays from throughout october) was redshirted (the kids will start K when already 6)


If their birthdays are after September they won't be starting when already six. They will be fine then turn six. Unless you are saying they are six turning seven, which I do not believe.


All the ones that stayed were born between May and August


Do some of them go straight to first though if they’re ready?
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 13:42     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
When do you consider redshirting?

What about a micropremie - so she was born in May but developmentally she's behind? I'm really struggling with when to start her... She will be 5 next May, but could really use another year of prek. But we're not UMC, barely MC... Can't really afford another year of pk.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 13:33     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At NCRC half the class (with birthdays from throughout october) was redshirted (the kids will start K when already 6)


same for river school and Temple Sinai school; vast majority of kids did PK as 5 yos in order to start K already 6 yo.


Not true of River.


+1, at least for 3 year olds pulled out for PK. I know about 5 of those and they all started PK at 4 and then went to K at 5 at GDS and Beauvoir.


I should add that I am talking about real cases, and real live children!
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2018 13:32     Subject: What % of the class was held back/red-shirted?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At NCRC half the class (with birthdays from throughout october) was redshirted (the kids will start K when already 6)


same for river school and Temple Sinai school; vast majority of kids did PK as 5 yos in order to start K already 6 yo.


Not true of River.


+1, at least for 3 year olds pulled out for PK. I know about 5 of those and they all started PK at 4 and then went to K at 5 at GDS and Beauvoir.