No, the lady interviewed clearly said that she held her kids back because "you give your kids every advantage you can". Not that I think holding kids back gives them a long term advantage (a la Gladwell's 10,000 hours). But I support her efforts to parent her kids how she sees fit. I don't think it's fair that she can redshirt & I couldn't get early entry (which I think would have given my kid a behavioral advantage of having the bar set higher for maturity.)

My mom always said they did it backwards, they should send kids to work since they have energy to burn and adults to school because they would enjoy it.
Eta: I don't even know if redshirting's available everywhere, but I don't want to see that "loophole" closed. I'd like to see more parental discretion encouraged, not less.

Last edited by La Texican; 03/09/12 11:06 AM.
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