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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's getting earlier. And I'd bet it's concentrated in upper income areas, where some families don't have to factor in childcare expenses. I'm in CCMD and my teenage boy has an early April birthday. All his same-grade friends are older than him, and his best friend in private was redshirted w/a January birthday. That was a decade ago.[/quote]

It’s concentrated in areas where people can afford to send their kids to a great preschool and/or SAH with a mom who has a high level of education and enough money to outsource a lot of household tasks that don’t directly benefit her child/children.  
They aren’t worried about missing a year of school (the kids aren’t), don’t have to worry about early drop out, which is what all of the articles talking about redshirted kids doing worse are talking about (doesn’t happen in this demographic), and generally have no negative effects, only positives.

You can’t blame the rich for doing it, and you can’t blame everyone else for being upset about it.    
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