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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well you cannot make this decision in a silo any longer. It used to be well, my kid is ready to sit, focus, learn. Or not.
Now it is, is my kid [b]socially, academically, behaviorly[/b], able to be the youngest by 12-18 mos in his/her class grade year after year after year.
Other parents decision to redshirt absolutely affects the class dynamic.[/quote]

I could not agree more with this post.  [/quote]

+1
Skewing the class older with clumps of spring and summer redshirt kids absolutely changes things in all three of those aspects, every year a different way.

I did not know America has such a span in each supposed grade. Doesn't everyone just hold back their children then, more and more?[/quote]

Not everyone. Childcare is expensive and many people can't swing an optional extra year. There are also people who believe their children are perfectly capable of handling the grade. So for the past two decades, which is as long as I've been watching it casually, it appears to be that it's not at all surprising for children with a birthday the month or two before the cut off to be held back. And some children with birthdays before that as well. But beyond that it's pretty rare. This is just what I've observed, in my upper middle class community. Typically, if a child with a birthday more than 3 months before the cut off is held back, it's because something happened. Either a health problem, a much beloved grandparent died the year before school began and the child/family has been grieving, etc. It's usually tied to something beyond "my child is small/immature." It probably helps that girls aren't redshirted as much, so there's both upward and downward pressure on the practice.[/quote]

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