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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I didn't read all these responses - but just saw this thread and wanted to comment. I have a May birthday boy and he is a rising senior in high school in MCPS.

He is perfect and is completely fine as a rising senior. He is a good student, has friends, is definitely mature for his age and grade and is ready for college.

I would absolutely send a May birthday - he has other May friends - we never even considered holding him back - he is studious and totally appropriate for his grade.

The only thing I notice is that most of his friends that have summer birthdays are a whole year ahead - they will be 18 this summer (mine will not be 18 until May of his senior year, obviously) - at least the summer boys were all held back.

It really doesn't matter now except that some have had their driver's licences for longer.[/quote]

How is May even a discussion?[/quote]

Our cut off is Sep 1. So if summer is acceptable June 1- August 31 for redshirting, is there that much difference between a kid like my son born May 30 to a kid born June 1.  It’s a few days away. For what it’s worth we aren’t red shirting but I know for a fact that every summer birthday is holding back because I know who isn’t moving on with him to K next year. The parents have already declared the year they will start because we start Kinder readiness activities in September for the following year. Maybe it’s a regional thing but it’s just what people do. Many spring birthdays will be redshirted as well, from February. It’s the worst for May kids because that is a grey area and they usually will be the youngest, save for the small handful of summer kids who go on time. Someone has to be the youngest and we will just make sure our son gets a little extra help to keep up. The concern is always that the older kids are perceived as gifted and more athletically inclined and they get extra attention which follows them through the years, when really they are just older. Our district is very competitive to begin with so we will just have to come to terms that he will have to work that much harder to keep up. [/quote]

Stop complaining and stop babying your child.  They will figure it out.   Your kid will not be the youngest with a May birthday when kids have later birthdays and go.  Mine is a September birthday and he's the youngest.  Its taught him to work harder and taught him how to deal with older kids.  Now he's in camps with much older kids and doing fine as that's what he's used to.  Parents are dumbing down their kids and then at the same time screaming how they need to be independent and it harms them to supervise them.  I don't get it.[/quote]

Stop complaining? Or babying my child who is going on time? LOL. How about everyone just sends their kid on time so a 5 year old isn't expected to work harder to keep up with 7 year olds in his K class? You know there is a pretty big developmental gap between a 5 year old and 7 year old right? It doesn't sound like redshirting is an issue in your district so he just happens to fall on the young side of his class, but there aren't kids with over a year difference either.

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