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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my daughter's Kindergarten class, I know of one boy who was redshirted.  He's much bigger than all the other kids but I have no way of knowing the parents' reason for red-shirting.  Maybe he wasn't behaviorally ready for Kindergarten initially.

I also know of someone in my daughter's class when she was in pre-K who was red-shirted.  She has a December birthday so turned 5 during her pre-k year.  He turned 6 at the beginning of the pre-K year and was already reading/writing very well.  I am completely baffled as to why his parents chose to hold him back instead of sending him to Kindergarten since his behavior was fine and he was academically very successful at a young age.

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Trying to game the system and give the kid an advantage. It very well may backfire with bored, disruptive behavior. I'm trying to figure out if he really turned 6 at the beginning of the pre-k year. Do you mean he turned 5 in August of pre-K, 6 at the beginning of K?[/quote]

NP but my child's preK4 (they go in at 4, turn 5 during the year, and are supposed to start Kindergarten the following year) had a boy who was in his 2nd year of preK4 and turned 6 at the very beginning of the school year.  He'll turn 19 in the fall of his senior year of high school and will be closer to 20 than 19 when he graduates.   Mine will be 17 right up until graduation.  That's almost a 2 year age difference.  This is nuts.  I was 7 in 2nd grade, this kid was 7 in Kindergarten!!![/quote]

I would suspect an issue. [/quote]

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