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[quote=Anonymous]If your child is academically precocious and/or mature fine, don't redshirt, but let me be blunt, if they're average or slightly behind or small for their age group do it. Our child has a October birthday and we weren't offered this option. Now there are kids who are almost two years older in the grade. It has gotten so bad that our child refuses to go to birthday celebrations and will not allow us to host one. At a gathering the teachers had the students line up according to age. The schools need to get a handle on this and many of the parents cite the Gladwell book regardless of its validity. Spend the extra cash and redshirt. We are going to have to change schools to get our child's confidence back. I truly blame this on the school. Teachers are people too and respond to what is in front of them and do not take birthday into consideration. [/quote]
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