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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are at a school of mixed middle class and poor kids. All the poor kids go on time. The middle class summer boys are majority red-shirted. Spring boys go on time but very occasionally there is a spring redshirt. Uncommon for girls to be held back. [/quote]

My niece who is 2 1/2 months before cutoff redshirted.  They had free childcare (my FIL) and since she was very petite - wanted to give her [b]the gift of time[/b].  [note - she is the top student in her class of now 5th graders,  still the smallest in the grade][/quote]

Jeez, I wish people received an electric shock every time they used this phrase.[/quote]
yea.. I don't get this.... "The gift of time.." ... like a year was added to her life?  ... she has to wait a year  before getting out of school compared to the rest of the kids her age?

I just see it as being delayed a year in everything.

I'm a Sept. baby, not redshirted and was *always* the smallest person in my class. I'm barely 5'.  I not only survived, but I have grit.  IMO, unless there is a developmental delay, holding back for any other reason is just being a lawnmower parent.

Both my summer kids (boy and girl) went on time.  Both are small for their age. Both are doing great and are learning to deal with challenges in life of being the smallest and youngest in class.  I want to teach my kids that life is not unicorns and rainbows.  They are in MS.[/quote]

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