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[quote=Anonymous]Don’t do this OP. I have kids in elementary in APS with late July and Early November BDs. It’s so much easier to be the older kid. Red shirting is not prevalent in our elementary, but there are 1-2 boys in each class.

My July kid is gifted. He scores 1-2 grades ahead on the assessments and in the top 1% of things like CogAT. 3rd grade was the first school year I didn’t worry he was behind his peers until after winter break - when he was chronically the same age as most of his peers were back in September. Every year I hear complaints starting in March about how “everyone has had a birthday but me!”

School and friendships are so much easier socially for my “older” child. He is also very bright academically and he is not bored.

You don’t know what sport your child will play yet, but you can look at the lacrosse and swimming threads on DCUM to read about parents having an absolute fit over cutoff dates and age verification. There is no perfect BD for sports because each sport has its own date (school year, calendar year, June, September, December - it’s all over the place). [/quote]

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