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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally done by awful people. [/quote]

The truly awful people are those who have a precocious 4 year old with a December birthday who insist that their child is so much more advanced than any other 4 year old that they must be moved ahead. The child is usually an only child who has strong verbal skills from having only spoken with adults but zero social skills and no idea how to respond when another 4 year old takes their crayon since they haven’t experienced that horror in their curated play group. These kids will be a total mess by the end of elementary school.[/quote]

This... is super rare? Redshirting is common but I don't know anyone who pushed their kid into kindergarten at 4 unless they had a September birthday and they were encouraged to do so by the school and PK teachers.

Most of the people who object to redshirting have kids who meet the normal cutoffs. I have a kid who started school on time, at 5 years old, though she is on the young end because she's a summer birthday. I find redshirting summer birthdays fine but I get annoyed with redshirting kids older than that because I have an "on time" kid who suddenly seems young and immature when lined up next to kids who are 18 months older, and I want the behavioral expectations for my on time kid to reflect the normal behavior for 5/6 year olds, and not the behavior of kids who should probably be in 1st grade.

I've never encountered a kid who started school early but I've encountered numerous redshirted kids who skew the behavioral expectations for the rest of the grade.

For me it's not even about academics, that's individual. It's about making sure grade level expectations make sense for the cohort.[/quote]

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