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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I understand this explanation but many parents in my community are putting their kids in kindergarten when they are already 6 and nearly 7 essentially sitting the kids out nearly 2 years.  The kid should have started at 5, was 5 in the fall they should have started but the parent sits them out.  [/quote]

That’s not holding them out two years.

Thing is, it is perfectly legal to start your child a year late. It’s also perfectly legal to start your child a year early. School districts have policies allowing it. It’s not breaking any rule. It’s just choosing a different path.

Those who say a child will be 20 in high school really don’t know how to calculate ages and grades. If that happened around here it would not be due to redshirting. That being said, it could happen. Some kids with special needs stay in until they are 22. And some kids have medical problems that result in missing so much time that they can fall behind by a year or two and end up graduating at age 20. But neither of these relates to red shirting. [/quote]

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