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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because caring for children is a nightmare and expensive. Parents send their kids as soon as they can. [/quote]

Then why did even have children in the first place? Were they forced at gun-point?[/quote]
Daycare is very expensive. It's typically $20k for an extra year of daycare. Parents weigh the other uses of that money. Forget the nightmare part of PPs post. It's not a nightmare. It's the expense. That’s also why people get so worked up about redshirting being "cheating". They feel bad about not wanting to spend the money.[/quote]

But I'm asking about affluent parents; parents for whom k20 is pennies. Clearly, they have the means to redshirt, yet the vast majority don't.[/quote]

If they are academically and socially ready to start kindergarten, it just doesn’t make sense to keep them in preschool another year. Kindergarten really isn’t that difficult, at least at most public schools. I know some say that the maturity differences are more clear in middle school, but I am not keeping a child back for a year because of what “might” happen in middle or high school.[/quote]

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