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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, OP, but I think your reasoning is just crazy.  You don't seem to mention any real justification for redshirting your may birthday.  I started school at 5 with an August birthday, my brother started school at 4 with a late November birthday.  We both did fine.

When does this end?  If everyone with May/June/July/August birthdays decide to redshirt will then all the April birthdays redshirt?  Why should they go to school with kids more than a year older than them?  Then what will the March kids do?  Do you see the problem?  I think the counties/state need to step up and put in some requirements for when a child starts K.

I think at some point, OP, your child will be embarrassed to be more than a year older than other kids in class.  Everyone knows it is common with early fall birthdays, but when your kid turns 15 in eight grade than all the other kids will notice.  [/quote]

He would turn 15 at the end of the school year, a few months before other fall birthday kids heading into 9th grade turn 15.

[b]In any given class, you will have a student who is a year older than the youngest, even without redshirting.  There are 12 months in a year - someone born on the very last day before cutoff and someone born the day after cutoff will be 12 months apart.  Is adding in a few extra months to that span really a disaster?[/b]

Yes it is.  Because 12 months is one thing, but it starts to become awkward and unfair to those who are youngest and otherwise ready for K, to be in class with kids 16 months older.  Then those with August and July birthdays feel compelled to hold back because of this slippery slope.  So then everyone ends up holding back, and so on it goes.

In grade school I had a friend who was nearly a whole year older than me.  It never was a big deal.  I don't think I thought about it once.  [/quote][/quote]

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