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Reply to "Here's what I don't understand about red shirting"
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[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] I redshirt my late july birthday boy, and i can assure you I never thought I was "beating the system". Years in school are the same no matter what. So it's an extra year of childhood versus an extra year in the working world. I am fine giving him an extra year of childhood. [/quote]
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