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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, private school parent here who redshirted a summer birthday. One of his friends is a redshirted spring birthday. No one cares. One thing about starting in PK or K is that the kids all know each other. Social groups are well established before that stuff is on their radar. It’s a non-issue.

And I can’t help but laugh at everyone who says that they’re trying to bill you for extra money. They are not. We were recommended for an extra year when we were on a ton of financial aid. They definitely lost money on us. Believe me, as another poster said, they filled their classes just fine. They don’t have to try and squeeze an extra year’s tuition out of anyone.[/quote]

[b]Your child must be young[/b]. The kids definitely talk about it by 3rd/4th grade and I’m sure your child will be asked why he was “held back” and it will be implied he’s stupid. This always happens. How naive to think that because kids went to the same preschool and their moms volunteered together on the PTA that they will not be aware of Larlo being 1.5 or 1 year older than the vast majority of the class. Ask me how I know. [/quote]

Nope! My kid is now 15. Perhaps the difference is that it’s normal in our school to redshirt summer birthdays (probably 90%) so the difference between them and the rarer spring redshirts  isn’t that huge. But the kids really do not care. The spring redshirt kid isn’t “1.5 years older than the vast majority of the class”. He’s the oldest in his class by 3 months. That’s not enough of a difference for anyone to get excited about. It is just not a big deal. I’m not sure what else I can say.  [/quote]

Agree. Mine is 13. Nobody asks or cares because its so common.[/quote]

It is not that common and yes kids talk. [/quote]

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