8th grader who is 15?

[Anonymous]

Neither common nor surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 1st grader had two 8 year olds in her class in the spring. She's still only 6. It's weird. And those kids were the worst behaved too.

I don't even know how that's possible unless there was some stupid pandemic parenting involved (e.g. the parents were going to redshirt their child two years ago, then the Covid virtual year happened, so they held him back ANOTHER year). Anyone who just turned 8 should have been in 2nd grade this past year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader was 13 all year and won’t turn 14 until late September. Luckily he is tall and very athletic or he’d probably struggle socially. I hate that people do this.

Same here. My rising sophomore only turns 15 in the middle of August. He actually went on time but so many others do not. Thankfully he is tall/ athletic and mature as people now assume that he’s two years older than he actually is.

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Anonymous wrote:Not unusual to be 15 at the end of 8th grade in FCPS. We know plenty of girls turning 15 in August when 9th grade starts. These girls were redshirted. So I imagine there are some boys, and girls, who were red shifted with Spring birthdays and will ne 15 towards the end of 8th grade.

Yes, and plenty of kids who will be 13 all through 8th or who will start 8th at 12 and then turn 13 right before the cutoff. So 12-15 is the new normal 8th grade age range.

Without any redshirting, 12-14 is the expected age range across the 10 months of 8th grade. Kids are within 12 months of each other.

With summer redshirting, it’s still 12-14. Kids are within 15 months of each other.

With spring redshirting (very uncommon), it’s 12-15. Kids are within 18 months of each other and at no point in time are there 12yos with 15yos.

So not really the “new normal”.

With redshirting as common as it is, this is the new normal.

[Anonymous]

It's amazing how this poster who is obsessed with red shirting find multiple ways to bring this up again and again and again.

Op you need therapy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader was 13 all year and won’t turn 14 until late September. Luckily he is tall and very athletic or he’d probably struggle socially. I hate that people do this.

Same here. My rising sophomore only turns 15 in the middle of August. He actually went on time but so many others do not. Thankfully he is tall/ athletic and mature as people now assume that he’s two years older than he actually is.

You must be private school families. This is still rare in public schools - each of my kids have had maybe 3-4 kids in their entire grade redshirt (grades are about 80 kids). It's not enough to affect anyone's social life. If your kid is struggling socially, it's because that's normal for middle school and early high school.

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Anonymous wrote:Not unusual to be 15 at the end of 8th grade in FCPS. We know plenty of girls turning 15 in August when 9th grade starts. These girls were redshirted. So I imagine there are some boys, and girls, who were red shifted with Spring birthdays and will ne 15 towards the end of 8th grade.

Yes, and plenty of kids who will be 13 all through 8th or who will start 8th at 12 and then turn 13 right before the cutoff. So 12-15 is the new normal 8th grade age range.

Without any redshirting, 12-14 is the expected age range across the 10 months of 8th grade. Kids are within 12 months of each other.

With summer redshirting, it’s still 12-14. Kids are within 15 months of each other.

With spring redshirting (very uncommon), it’s 12-15. Kids are within 18 months of each other and at no point in time are there 12yos with 15yos.

So not really the “new normal”.

With redshirting as common as it is, this is the new normal.

It's common in wealthy private schools, not in normal schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not unusual to be 15 at the end of 8th grade in FCPS. We know plenty of girls turning 15 in August when 9th grade starts. These girls were redshirted. So I imagine there are some boys, and girls, who were red shifted with Spring birthdays and will ne 15 towards the end of 8th grade.

Yes, and plenty of kids who will be 13 all through 8th or who will start 8th at 12 and then turn 13 right before the cutoff. So 12-15 is the new normal 8th grade age range.

Without any redshirting, 12-14 is the expected age range across the 10 months of 8th grade. Kids are within 12 months of each other.

With summer redshirting, it’s still 12-14. Kids are within 15 months of each other.

With spring redshirting (very uncommon), it’s 12-15. Kids are within 18 months of each other and at no point in time are there 12yos with 15yos.

So not really the “new normal”.

With redshirting as common as it is, this is the new normal.

It's common in wealthy private schools, not in normal schools.

It's common in some public schools. After covid, about 1/4 of my son's kindergarten class was redshirted.

[Anonymous]

It definitely means you were held back, but if it's just one kid, who knows the reason? It could be a developmental delay, dealing with a family crisis, etc.

If it's a bunch of kids in the class, then sure, it's a pattern.

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader was 13 all year and won’t turn 14 until late September. Luckily he is tall and very athletic or he’d probably struggle socially. I hate that people do this.

The vast majority of his class is older than your kid. A few kids are an extra month or two older than that. Is that really a big deal?

Age doesn’t seem to play a factor at all in popularity in my kids’ classes.

In my kids grade, the oldest boys all seem to be the most popular. It’s interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:DD just mentioned a classmate is 15. Is that common around here?

Back in the 80s I remember a few 8th graders who were 16 by the end of the year. I think they were held back a few times because of undiagnosed dyslexia but just a guess.

[Anonymous]

Schools should not allow parents to redshirt without the recommendation of a doctor or teacher. These UMC parents always seeking personal advantage for their kids are damaging the social dynamics of a grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Schools should not allow parents to redshirt without the recommendation of a doctor or teacher. These UMC parents always seeking personal advantage for their kids are damaging the social dynamics of a grade.

From what I've read it also isn't great for the kid in the long run.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not unusual to be 15 at the end of 8th grade in FCPS. We know plenty of girls turning 15 in August when 9th grade starts. These girls were redshirted. So I imagine there are some boys, and girls, who were red shifted with Spring birthdays and will ne 15 towards the end of 8th grade.

Yes, and plenty of kids who will be 13 all through 8th or who will start 8th at 12 and then turn 13 right before the cutoff. So 12-15 is the new normal 8th grade age range.

Without any redshirting, 12-14 is the expected age range across the 10 months of 8th grade. Kids are within 12 months of each other.

With summer redshirting, it’s still 12-14. Kids are within 15 months of each other.

With spring redshirting (very uncommon), it’s 12-15. Kids are within 18 months of each other and at no point in time are there 12yos with 15yos.

So not really the “new normal”.

With redshirting as common as it is, this is the new normal.

Spring redshirting is not common.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My 8th grader was 13 all year and won’t turn 14 until late September. Luckily he is tall and very athletic or he’d probably struggle socially. I hate that people do this.

The vast majority of his class is older than your kid. A few kids are an extra month or two older than that. Is that really a big deal?

Age doesn’t seem to play a factor at all in popularity in my kids’ classes.

In my kids grade, the oldest boys all seem to be the most popular. It’s interesting.

For each of my kids it’s the youngest. That’s more personality than anything.