Another redshirting dilemma, switching from public to private in 5 years

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Anonymous wrote:It is common for kids to repeat a grade when they go to private. Make your best choice now, and don't worry about the future. Because repeating is common in the move to private, you have an even easier choice. When you're ready to move him, you'll be able to evaluate where he is and whether red shirting would be a benefit or not.

+1 -- my 3 summer birthday kids all repeated a grade when entering private in MS; not a big deal at all

that would be a huge deal to me.

It would be a huge deal to you as a parent now, or it would have been a huge deal to you as a kid? In either case, why? Wouldn't you want to be with kids your age? Why wouldn't it be persuasive to you -- as a parent or child that different schools have different age ranges for each grade? That seemed pretty straigthforward to our kids.

Not the PP, but I think that if I were a child, and somebody said, "Ok, you just did third grade with these kids in this school, and now you're going to do third grade again with these other kids in this other school, but it's great! they'll be your age!", I would be dubious.

You explain to your dubious child that the new school is different in many ways. For example in our case, the new school had sports in middle school and a more demanding curriculum. It took our oldest about 3 months into the school year to realize this was not the same 6th-grade. He loved the school, his new classmates and teachers. That was enough to sell our younger kids.