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Jake Kranz
English I
Mrs. Davison
April 21, 2014
The Possibilities of Redshirting Redshirting is a new idea for kindergarteners and not just college freshmen who want to be the best they can be. Outliers: Stories of Success by: Malcolm Gladwell discusses this topic and why it is a good choice. Redshirting kindergarteners is usually done my parents who have children born just before the cutoff and therefore are the youngest and smallest in their class. There is also a different level of maturity in the older students that helps them pay attention which leads to better understanding and better grades. Gladwell supports this by showing that the Swedish national team is almost all born in the first 3 months of the year which is just after the cutoff. This would mean they are the oldest they are the biggest, strongest, and most developed. If you are bigger and older you generally get more attention and better coaching which just adds up later in life. Redshirting should be allowed because of all the positive effects it has had on the children who were redshirted all over the world.
All of the following sentences are reasons that redshirting is a good decision. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers when explaining the effects of redshirting in the following year said, “You think that at some point these early advantages would dissipate. They don’t. They snowball” (qtd. in Safer 4). Why would a parent not want their child to succeed and be the best in academics and sports? With all the benefits and such few disadvantages to holding the child back just one year, redshirting allows for children to mature and be ready to fully blossom to the best of their ability. When asked if she thought redshirting her son really gave him the advantage, Megan Hoffecker, mother of Barret replied, “I think it does. I would prefer him to be an older in the class and become a leader in his environment, rather than a younger and be more of a follower” (qtd. in Safer 2). With more maturity,
English I
Mrs. Davison
April 21, 2014
The Possibilities of Redshirting Redshirting is a new idea for kindergarteners and not just college freshmen who want to be the best they can be. Outliers: Stories of Success by: Malcolm Gladwell discusses this topic and why it is a good choice. Redshirting kindergarteners is usually done my parents who have children born just before the cutoff and therefore are the youngest and smallest in their class. There is also a different level of maturity in the older students that helps them pay attention which leads to better understanding and better grades. Gladwell supports this by showing that the Swedish national team is almost all born in the first 3 months of the year which is just after the cutoff. This would mean they are the oldest they are the biggest, strongest, and most developed. If you are bigger and older you generally get more attention and better coaching which just adds up later in life. Redshirting should be allowed because of all the positive effects it has had on the children who were redshirted all over the world.
All of the following sentences are reasons that redshirting is a good decision. Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers when explaining the effects of redshirting in the following year said, “You think that at some point these early advantages would dissipate. They don’t. They snowball” (qtd. in Safer 4). Why would a parent not want their child to succeed and be the best in academics and sports? With all the benefits and such few disadvantages to holding the child back just one year, redshirting allows for children to mature and be ready to fully blossom to the best of their ability. When asked if she thought redshirting her son really gave him the advantage, Megan Hoffecker, mother of Barret replied, “I think it does. I would prefer him to be an older in the class and become a leader in his environment, rather than a younger and be more of a follower” (qtd. in Safer 2). With more maturity,
Cited: Gladwell, Malcom. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Print. Safer, Morley.pir. "Redshirting:Holding Kids Back from Kindergarten." 60 Minutes Overtime 4 3 2012, n. pag. Print. Paul, Pamela. "The Littlest Redshirts Sit Out Kindergarten." New York Times [New York] 20 08 2010, n. pag. Print. Wang, Sam, and Sandra Aamodt. "Delay Kindergarten at Your Child 's Peril." New York Times [New York] 24 09 2011, n. pag. Print.