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[quote=Anonymous]Look at this way. Sending a child on time when they should have been redshirted is far more reversible than redshirting a child when they should have been sent on time. If you send him on time and school's too hard for him, he can just repeat a grade. However, if you redshirt him and he's bored, he'll have to work very hard in order to skip a grade. To repeat a grade, you just have to not do your homework, not study for tests, and sleep during class. However, in order to skip a grade, you have to do twice as much work during a school year as you would otherwise.

Here's how I look at it. Suppose you have a meeting, but you're not sure whether it starts at 5 pm or 6 pm. If you arrive at 5 pm and it turns out that the meeting was at 6 pm, you simply wait and are bored for an hour until the meeting starts. However, if you arrive at 6 pm and it turns out that the meeting was at 5 pm, then you're an hour late and you're in trouble.

Our time on this earth is finite, and IMO, you shouldn't set your child up to be a year behind unless you absolutely have to.[/quote]

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