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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was born in March so red shirting was really never a consideration.  But now he is one of the youngest kids in his class.

Its really going to depend on your community and the school you want to send him to. Can you ask around to get a feeling for what people do? I don't like red shirting, but I also wouldn't like my kid to be a full year younger than his classmates. Its a tough call, but you've got plenty of time to figure this out.[/quote]

Us too. My daughter was born at the beginning of May and because her PK-12 school has a June 1 cutoff for Pre-K and inexplicably, an August 1 cutoff for K-5, most parents use the June 1 cutoff that school advises for Pre-K for K and 1st, so my daughter is the youngest in her grade. Holding her back didn't make sense because she's smart and mature and very social, but I also feel like I did her a huge disadvantage. Then again, I felt that redshirting her would also put her at a disadvantage. I was redshirted a billion years ago (end of July birthday) and had to play a year up in soccer and got made fun of a lot for being older than my peers. I really didn't like it and even lied about my age so I wouldn't have to answer questions about why I was older than everyone else. I keep telling myself that when my daughter goes out into the real world it won't matter, but in early elementary school it feels like she is at a disadvantage being younger especially because so many kids her class did PK elsewhere and then repeated PK while she only did it once. [/quote]

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