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Thanks for your partial permission to make my own choices about raising my kids. It means a lot to me!!
Great article.
Same thing happens here too. I've have 2 students that, because of wrestling, repeated 7th grade (per parent request). BUT our district is pretty much opposed to this so the kids enroll at a nearby Christian school for 7th part 2 and then come back for 8th.
I'm not trying to tell you how to raise your kids, but I am giving my opinion on this issue and it is an issue to a lot of folks.
The main advantage rich kids will always have over poor kids is, by and large, parents in wealthier families give a #### about education and those in poor families don't.
Most youth sports leagues go by age and not grade anyway. They all have their own cut-offs, most of which differ slightly from sport to sport.
Man, that is an over generalization if I ever heard one. At least I only complained about specific reasons parents hold kids back as an unfair advantage. Lots of poor mothers and fathers care about their child's education but can't afford to hold their kid back because of day care cost.
You say it is an over-generalization, I think it is a broadly accurate generalization. There are certainly plenty of exceptions in both directions, but the meat of the curve fits my statement.
Yeah, hearing people ##### about obscure things that "aren't fair" is enlightening. The distances people will go to make excuses is always fascinating.
If you don't like it, leave. I happen to think this is a very interesting topic.
Discussing the pros and cons is interesting. Having some ####### judge what people decide for their own kids on the basis of some crap social justice argument is tedious.
Of course the parents are going to do what's best for their children. It's the system that has to lay a level playing field.
13 years in school. Dec 22 birthday. Started early despite school objections. Male. I disagree. I was the youngest and smallest in my class until very late in high school when I had a growth spurt. Got girls, made the teams, even won some student council elections. In 5th grade they wanted to skip me ahead a year. I wish they had as my teacher was right. I was extremely bored and unchallenged at my own grade level. It would become a problem.
My nephew is one of those socially immature kids who should have waited to enter kindergarten. He was born early Sept. and because he was a bright kid they had him start kindergarten when he was still only 4. He was always the youngest kid in class and had trouble in school despite being highly intelligent.
Johnny Jr. is probably being beat out for a starting position at tee ball by a red-shirted kindergartner.
So why do you care? There's a million things that may seem unfair but this seems to be very minor compared with other things.
Minor in my mind is that an individual person doing this should be of no concern to anyone. I agree with Red - it's interesting to discuss the pros/cons because it does impact us individually if we have kids that fit the criteria. But why you would care in general doesn't make sense to me. If you are trying to weigh pros/cons for your granddaughter then that's great but as others have pointed out your granddaughter is a singular case (as is every other kid) - what you decide is best for her shouldn't be what everyone else decides for their kid.
DISAGREE.....
If you do that,.......... I'll hold my kid back AGAIN. You don't know how many times I'll hold him back in order to get him a fair chance at being a sports superstar or Class President.
I guess you could say my concerns are for everyone as a whole and if parents are holding their kids back so it gives them an advantage athletically, socially, and even academically over their classmates, I don't don't think that is fair to those who don't have the means to hold their kid back due to cost of day care or for other reasons. I kind of hope everyone starts doing it to nullify the advantage.
There's basically never a reason to not vaccinate your kid (I'm leaving the possibility that a kid could be allergic to the vaccine although I don't know if that's possible) - there's plenty of reasons to hold your kid back. Do I think that parents who hold kids back solely for athletics are stupid, of course but that is the vast exception to the rule I would imagine.
eventually the will max out in HS no? I think 21 is the max in my wife's HS
People do stuff all the time that give their kids an advantage - private tutors, coaches and the like. I also don't see a problem with wanted to give your kid the best opportunity to succeed - everybody wants that for their kid. Do you send your granddaughter to ballet, gymnastics, or other extra-curricular activities that others can't afford? If so, why?
