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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand what your concern is OP. [b]Roughly a third of their classmates(those born between September and December[/b]) will be younger than them. As they were born in 2014, they should be learning alongside other kids who were born in 2014, not kids who were born in 2015. Nothing is more important than being as similar to your classmates as possible. It's not good to be different. I can understand parents who want to redshirt Oct-Dec children, as they were born close to the cut-off(although I don't think it's justified even in that case as those parents could have easily conceived in Apr-Jun instead of Jan-Mar so their child would have been born in Jan-Mar if they wanted them to be the oldest), but August can hardly be considered borderline. They'll be far from the youngest.[/quote]

No.  The cutoff is not December.  I don't know where OP lives, but in VA the cutoff is Sept 30-----so the only kids younger would be those born in September --and, very likely, there may be some from that group who also choose to redshirt.  They could very likely be the youngest in the class.

What is the cutoff in MD?  DC?[/quote]

There are one or two anti-redshirt posters on here who continue to insist that the cutoff is 12/1 or even the end of the year, when in reality, that’s only the case in New York and a few surrounding areas. Yes, the cutoff in VA is 9/30 as it is in many other states. Maryland is 9/1. I believe DC is also 9/30 but so many kids in DC are in private schools that are free to set their own cutoffs, and often do set them much earlier. [/quote]

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