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My mother-in-law texted me about this story on 60 Minutes about red-shirting. I have two boys who will be the oldest in their class(or close to it.) I am lucky because they both miss the cut-off, so I didn't have to hold them back. If my two-year-old had been born one day earlier, I would have red-shirted him. I guess I can see how it could get abused, but I am surprised to hear more parents are making the decision to hold their child back. If your child was born on August 32st and the cut-off was September 1st, what would you do? What if his/her birthday was in July?
Here's the story FROM 60 Minutes
-NewsAnchorMom Jen
3 comments:
My twin sons missed the cutoff by 4 days, which worked out better than I had thought it would, as it gave them more time to mature & get home-tutored by me. Also, since 1 son is autistic and the other was a late talker, the school district had wanted to place them both in an early childhood special ed class the fall when they would have turned 3 -- but that year, the nearest such class was 20 miles away in the county seat! The following year, an early childhood special ed class opened in town, so we were OK with placing the autistic son in that class. (His twin got a year of private preschool, followed by a year of "mommy school," before he was old enough for the public school's kindergarten class.)
My daughter, who is now 7, was born in July and I can say I never even considered holding her back in preschool another year. She loved pre-school and couldn’t wait for Kindergarten. However once she got here she was so bored the first half of the year that it was like pulling teeth to get her to go to school. Size wise she was, and still is, bigger than most of the kids in her class as her dad is 6’5”. I guess my thought is you should base whether or not you should send your child to kindergarten on that child’s emotional well-being and maturity at that point in their life.
My son (born in June) was more than ready to start Kindergarten on time.
I think if my daughter (born late September)had been born before the cut-off, we still would have held her back. I don't think she was quite ready for it, but we didn't have to make the decision. It was made for us.
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