redshirting
- noun
- /ˈrɛdˌʃɜrtɪŋ/
- US
:
diferimiento escolar
- Redshirting allows students to postpone their entry into school in order to enhance their skills and readiness for learning.
- failure and/or redshirting
Examples
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Redshirting, a term originally used to refer to athletic participants who must sit and wait on the bench for some time before they are allowed to play (also referred to as "delayed entry"), is now being used in the context of school readiness to refer to one popular "solution" for the unready child (Cameron & Wilson, 1990).
Academic text (1999) -
Many schools implement redshirting to help children adapt better before starting kindergarten.
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Relative age was found to be important to football participation, particularly at the Southern university where evidence of previous academic failure and/or redshirting was found.
Academic text (1992) -
This would suggest that parental redshirting and/or academic failures may be more common in the South.
Academic text (1992) -
One may wish to question the equity of allowing the relative age effect in school sports to be compounded by academic failure or intentional redshirting.
Academic text (1992) -
Redshirting simply means that the child's initial entry into school is delayed for one year, during which time the child attends no formal schooling, with the hope that in 12 months he or she will have attained a level of development commensurate with the demands of the school program that he or she will enter.
Academic text (1999) -
Parents often consider redshirting as a strategy to give their child an advantage in school.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Redshirting comes from college sports where a player would wear a red shirt to show they would 'sit out' for a year. That 'sit out' year lets them grow and keep one more year to play later, so redshirting means delaying play to give someone more time to develop or to gain an advantage.
