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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redshirting parents think they are beating the system.  They aren’t.  When you’re a kid, you want to be older and when you’re an adult, you want to be younger.  Redshirting benefits someone in elementary school (most of the time) but starts to hurt them as they hit high school and graduate college.  It stinks to lose another year to school.  You spend YEARS in school and this isn’t including grad school.  Why make your kid go through that just so they are a little bigger or faster in kindergarten?  Kindergarten hardly matters.  One less year of retirement savings does.  [/quote]
My parents were of this mindset, too. I ended up graduating college at 21...and had no clue what I wanted to do and wasn’t ready to hit the work force. So I went to law school and never used the degree. It doesn’t help to push someone who is not ready. [/quote]

I started a 5-year grad program at 21, and have been working in that field for almost 20 years. Not sure you can necessarily blame lack of direction on being younger in your cohort.

Perhaps your parents pushed you toward law school, but that wasn’t your real interest?[/quote]
I'm sure there was a lot at play, my point being, I would have benefited from another year to mature and decide what I wanted to do.  I'm not in favor of pushing kids through as fast as possible with the end goal of graduating college as soon as possible, as the pp I was responding to advocated. I don't think redshirting is a given negative in college as pp said. I think it depends on the child/young adult and just wanted to show another outcome. [/quote]

Starting kindergarten at 5 instead of 6 isn't pushing as fast as possible.  [/quote]

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