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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The notion that "'redshirting" is some trick that rich people use to get an unfair advantage for their kid seems utterly and completely ridiculous. It's not going to give them a leg up academically or athletically. If anything, it's going to give the kid a complex about why he or she is older than everyone else. But if the parent sees some problem that will be exacerbated by pushing their kid along, then I don't know why we don't give the parent the benefit of the doubt. They know their kid better than anyone else. [/quote]

This is some Pollyanna nonsense. Redshirting is a thing in sports precisely because being a year older gives a huge advantage. Looking for an academic edge (over others, though they don’t say the quiet part aloud) is why some parents do it for school. [/quote]

The rationale of one of the parents quoted in the WaPo article is literally just, "Since he’d be the youngest child in his class, having an extra year would be advantageous to his development."  That's it.  Just being older to get an advantage.  (And of course some other kid is the youngest now.)[/quote]

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