How does redshirting work?

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Anonymous wrote:I started my kids on time, even though one of them arguably would have benefited from an extra year of preschool.

However, i did not want to have a 20-year-old high school senior. That's the other end of redshirting that nobody is talking about at all.

Preschool and grade school had its ups and downs since my kid was the youngest in the class, but now she's a star student in high school and will graduate HS at 17.

Think about both ends of redshirting, OP.

So, your DD will graduate at 17. Yet, you say that had you redshirted her, she would have graduated at 20? Do you not see a problem with this calculation?

I'd much prefer to have an 18 year old at graduation. I wouldn't want a 20 year old high school senior, either. And, that is not what happens.

There is something else going on there, it’s not redshirting at that point. Maybe the child was retained twice?? Most kids who are redshirted have September or Summer birthdays, meaning they will be 18 and turn 19 in the next couple of months after graduation. I guess there are some early June/ May redshirts, but this is more the exception. So most 18 at graduation, not 19. For them to be 20 or nearly 20 they would have had to be retained. And this is an exceptional circumstance. My redshirt kid is a few days before our current off and would automatically be the oldest in 40 states.

No, your math is wrong. We have a September child. We sent him at and he will turn 18 right when he starts college. If we held him back, he would turn 18 in September right when senior year started and turn 19 Freshman year of college. Kids would only be 20 if parents held them back and they had September kids (so held them back one year technically) or they held them back two years instead of one.

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Anonymous wrote:I started my kids on time, even though one of them arguably would have benefited from an extra year of preschool.

However, i did not want to have a 20-year-old high school senior. That's the other end of redshirting that nobody is talking about at all.

Preschool and grade school had its ups and downs since my kid was the youngest in the class, but now she's a star student in high school and will graduate HS at 17.

Think about both ends of redshirting, OP.

So, your DD will graduate at 17. Yet, you say that had you redshirted her, she would have graduated at 20? Do you not see a problem with this calculation?

I'd much prefer to have an 18 year old at graduation. I wouldn't want a 20 year old high school senior, either. And, that is not what happens.

There is something else going on there, it’s not redshirting at that point. Maybe the child was retained twice?? Most kids who are redshirted have September or Summer birthdays, meaning they will be 18 and turn 19 in the next couple of months after graduation. I guess there are some early June/ May redshirts, but this is more the exception. So most 18 at graduation, not 19. For them to be 20 or nearly 20 they would have had to be retained. And this is an exceptional circumstance. My redshirt kid is a few days before our current off and would automatically be the oldest in 40 states.

No, your math is wrong. We have a September child. We sent him at and he will turn 18 right when he starts college. If we held him back, he would turn 18 in September right when senior year started and turn 19 Freshman year of college. Kids would only be 20 if parents held them back and they had September kids (so held them back one year technically) or they held them back two years instead of one.

But your child will be 17 when they graduate HS. A redshirted child will be 18 at graduation. That child would have to be retained twice to be 20 at graduate(which was the original comment — 20 year oldmin HS). Regarding college, yes a redshirted sept. child would be 19 a month or so into college and if that child was retained 20 a month or so into college, but again, that rarely happens. And lots of kids are older in colleg in general with gap years and various cutoffs. Many states have August or July cutoffs, so those students will be 19 enetering college and 20 if they were retained once.