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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Right, red shirting is holding your child back when he/she COULD have gone to kindergarten.  So a child turning 5 years old this August 25, 2016 could go to Kindergarten in Montgomery County because their cut off date is September 1.  If you decide to NOT send that 5 year old to kindergarten because he/she isn't really ready (having only turned 5 2 weeks earlier), then you are red shirting and that child will go to school as a 6 year old in Sept 2017.  And that's fine, to decide a child really isn't ready to go to Kindergarten.  And that's red shirting.

But having a child who "misses the cutoff" by 2 weeks, as your older child will, isn't being red shirted, he's going to go to school when he's almost 6 years old because he missed the Sept 1 cutoff.  And that's fine.

Now, some people "red shirt" a child born in freakin' June or July when the cutoff is September 1st.  I think that's a bit crazy.  [/quote]

Or February.  Etc.  More than a bit crazy.[/quote]

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