Will Private school want to redshirt summer bday DS?
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Anonymous
| We are trying to figure out schooling. DS is a June birthday. Will private school admissions want to redshirt a candidate like him? He's very bright and verbal. No issues. |
Anonymous
| Yes. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely. |
Anonymous
| PPs - what are you basing your answers on? Previous experience? |
Anonymous
Touring 15 private schools as the mother of a June birthday child. |
Anonymous
| Yes. My DS is a July b-day and we were counseled by many privates in MD to redshirt, even before the application processs. |
Anonymous
| Depends on the school. For example, GDS: no. Beauvoir and Sidwell: highly probable. |
Anonymous
| Same here, late July boys counseled to stay in pre-k but we don't want to do it. Later on the schools will brag about their pre-k kids reading at 1st grade level. Well for a redshirted child that is only slightly above grade level. |
Anonymous
| Depends on the child and the parents' views too. I know some summer b-day boys at Sidwell that were held back, but also plenty of others who were not. Seems to me that the ones held back are generally physically smaller, not that that's necessarily the reason they were held back. Also, FWIW, each group (held back vs not held back) generally seems developmentally appropriate to me for where each boy lies. So between the parents and the school, they seem to be making appropriate decisions. |
Anonymous
| Some will and others will not. See how the process unfolds. What you learn about your child and the schools in the process will lead you to a decision you are comfortable with. |
Anonymous
Not necessarily true! 
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Anonymous
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Most schools will redshirt June/July/Aug Birthdays. You can fight it but you will find that your child wil end up being the youngest in the class especially at all boy schools.
We are at an all boys school and every summer birthday except one was redshirted. |
Anonymous
| In my experience at Sidwell, there are children who are older in the class with summer bdays turning 6 now and then children with summer birthdays turning 5 now. The class has a very wide range of ages. The two youngest kids in the class this year were boys. So I think that it might depend on the numbers of the class and the make up that they are looking for. There are no magic answers to this. Someone always is the youngest and someone is always the oldest. |
Anonymous
| So annoying! Plan to send summer b-day boy to high school/boarding back in our own country and only the Americans do this. Just a vent. |
Anonymous
| I doubt you will find 25% of a class is summer birthdays. This is especially true of boys. There is a boy bias, perhaps it is warranted but that does not mean it should be allowed. No diversity there. There are always exception but in general the schools would rather the summer boys wait. Obvious summer birthday boys catch up if you did not then girls would dominate academically in public school and you would see more redshirting there as well. With an extra year of experience these kids should score higher in SATs, sports and be more poised. |