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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  I have a child with an early December birthday whom we had no choice but to “hold back.”  He is in class with some kids who are 18 months older.  He holds his own academically,  it is a bit young on the social side.

I have never blamed other parents who decided to hold their kids back for the fact that my son is on the youngish side socially. No matter when kids go to school, some will be more immature than others.  The oldest kid in my son’s class last year was extremely shy, and I could totally see why he was held back. I felt a little sorry for him, though, because other kids knew he was older and sometimes made a thing out of it.

I have an early September birthday, and I was the youngest kid in my class growing up.  It wasn’t until I was a mom that I realized that was why I was somewhat socially clueless, i.e. not into the gossiping, clothes, and boys that started at 5th grade for many of my classmates.  Or, that could have been a personality thing.  Who knows?

Trying to game the system when it comes to redshirting is a silly, fruitless endeavor.  Even if a certain grade looked a certain way one year, it is not necessarily predictive of the future.  [/quote]

How can your December birthday kid have classmates that are 18 months older? In DC a December kid is amongst the oldest in the class except for the fall and redshirted kids of course[/quote]

Um, not very bright are you? Hint: the answer is contained in your comments.  [/quote]

Ahaha ok... so pp is saying that there are kids that were redshirted twice? In order to be 18 months older than a December birthday they had to be born in July and redshirted twice. If a July birthday is redshirted once, he will only be 6 months older than the December birthday kid. This is bs[/quote]

Agreed, this makes no sense. A December kid may have summer birthday classmates who went on time in their class as well as summer birthdays who were redshirted. But the December kid is only six months older or younger than either set of kids. To have an 18-month difference, a summer birthday kid would have to have started kindergarten at age seven, which is pretty unheard of barring special needs, even for the hardest core redshirters.[/quote]

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