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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you concerned exactly?[/quote]

Yeah, OP.  Does the presence of this kid some how tarnish the sheen on your shiny snowflake?[/quote]

Because the redshirted kids seem to be the ones behaving badly - and constantly taking the teachers' attention away from the kids who are the right age.[/quote]

That's interesting, because we had the opposite experience. In my child's class, it was always the kids who were on the younger side who were causing trouble, particularly one kid whose birthday was on September 30 so was four when K started.  Apparently, the school had told the mom that they didn't think he was ready, but she sent him anyway. That one very young child took up a lot of the teacher's time because he was so immature. He needed more time before starting school, but his family wanted him in school even though he wasn't ready so the whole class was lost time almost every day.

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The two oldest are the worst behaved.  They are over a year+ older than the other kids who are all within six months of each other.  They are physically bigger and both are hitting and pushing the other kids, they are verbally being nasty to the other kids.  My kid says they go into time out a lot.  The September child is not immature.  He is being held to an unreasonable standard because he is with kids 12-18 months older than him.  He is 5 basically when starting K.  A month does not make a huge difference.  I have a September kid.  He's 6 and in 1st.  He would have been miserable in K. this year.  [/quote]

The child I wrote about was in a class with very few, if any, "redshirted" kids. He was very immature for his age and the school picked up on this when he came in for the K round up day and suggested to the parents that it would be better for him to wait a year. The parents felt that since he was eligible, he should go. It is possible that free schooling was part of the reason for the family, but I don't know that for a fact.

This child went on to continue having problems in school. I worked with him in K and he was a sweet child but just overwhelmed by being in school, which only became worse in first grade.  I do think he would have been more successful with another year to mature. If he'd been born a day later, his parents would have had to wait for the next year, and I think he'd be having a more successful school experience to this day. 
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