8th grader who is 15?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

Which school system? What time of class? General ed?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

It's very common for kids to lie about their ages so that their classmates think they're wiser than they really are. Kids also lie about their ages so they get sign up for facebook earlier.
2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

It's very common for kids to lie about their ages so that their classmates think they're wiser than they really are. Kids also lie about their ages so they get sign up for facebook earlier.
2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

It's very common for kids to lie about their ages so that they can things like facebooks earlier. They also want their classmates to think they're wiser than they are.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

None. The PP is pulling stuff out of thin air.

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It doesn’t matter that it’s uncommon, the fact is that it happen and it is done predominantly by middle class white boys which further entrenches socio-economic, racial and gender gaps.

It is creating the future mediocre white men with unearned privilege.

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Anonymous wrote: It doesn’t matter that it’s uncommon, the fact is that it happen and it is done predominantly by middle class white boys which further entrenches socio-economic, racial and gender gaps.

It is creating the future mediocre white men with unearned privilege.

What you do with your privilege is more important in whether or not it was earned. For instance, does a certain privileged person use their privilege to help others less fortunate, or do they use it to increase their own gain? That's what determines who they truly are.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

Which school system? What time of class? General ed?

Probably gifted/honors classes.

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Two of my kids have August and September birthdays, so they were either going to be the youngest in their classes or the oldest. They could either start K 1 week after turning 5 and 3 weeks before turning 5, or 1 week after turning 6 or 3 weeks before turning 6. We went with the older option and i'm sure it will be fine. They are among the oldest in their classes but seem to fit in well with the other kids (currently still early elementary).

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

Which school system? What time of class? General ed?

Probably gifted/honors classes.

I was thinking SpEd.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

Which school system? What time of class? General ed?

Probably gifted/honors classes.

I was thinking SpEd.

That makes no sense. The SpEd kids are the kids struggling in school the most, so they are most likely the youngest kids. The honors students are the ones doing the best in school, so they are most likely the oldest kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

Which school system? What time of class? General ed?

Probably gifted/honors classes.

I was thinking SpEd.

That makes no sense. The SpEd kids are the kids struggling in school the most, so they are most likely the youngest kids. The honors students are the ones doing the best in school, so they are most likely the oldest kids.

Wrong, my young for the grade kid started algebra in 6th, all honors. Smart kids will do ok.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen.

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors. Way to old. Especially when some start high school at 13.

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty".

It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive.

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates.

+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare.

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted.

Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall.

These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related.

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd.

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting?

+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful.

Well, I’ve had a February redshirted kid in my class and at least a handful of spring ones every school year.

Which school system? What time of class? General ed?

Probably gifted/honors classes.

I was thinking SpEd.

That makes no sense. The SpEd kids are the kids struggling in school the most, so they are most likely the youngest kids. The honors students are the ones doing the best in school, so they are most likely the oldest kids.

Wrong, my young for the grade kid started algebra in 6th, all honors. Smart kids will do ok.

If he had been old for his grade, he probably would've been in Geometry in 6th grade. Any individual is going to do better as the oldest than as the youngest.