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[quote=Anonymous]I actually did what you are contemplating, OP, holding him back early on before he's aware of it.  But the difference are:

- my child's birthday was within days of the cutoff, not months -- 5 days to be exact.  It was ok with the daycare/preschool director because the rule was I am was a 1 year age span in the classroom.  Because there wasn't a child who was born at the same time or later the following year, it was ok.  But your kid is a few months from a cutoff so if he gets put with the younger group, it could be more than a year span or whatever state laws mandate.  Also it worked for my kid because there happened to be several kids with birthdays just after his so he had several kids close in age. Your kid if held back might be oldest by far by several months, and at that age, the differences are larger.  I wouldn't want that.

- I was going to send my kid to private school which has a different earlier cutoff than public.  So it wasn't necessarily redshirting as putting him on that different schedule from the beginning.
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