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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I regret not red shirting my May bday son.  He's 14 now so too late.  Doing OK but it'd be a very different story if he were one year older.  It's an enormous advantage and I would recommend to anyone I know to give the gift to their kid.  [/quote]

There's a pretty significant downside, in that that it's a whole year out of your child's young adulthood.

Redshirting seems like it helps

Kids with potential to be elite athletes in a sport dominated by school-grade based teams (though doubling 8th grade seems like a better choice.)
Kids -- mainly boys -- with any risk factors for ADHD (late birthdays in general have 30% higher diagnoses) or similar problems.
Kids with signs of learning disabilities, or other developmental issues that intersect with schoolwork.

I will say that we had an obviously ADHD kid who has/had a couple other problems, and, while it would socially have been a lot better for him to be redshirted, it was academically impossible.[/quote]

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