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[quote=Anonymous]Private schools have a well-known history for agressively pushing parents to red-shirt.  And why wouldn't they!  It's to their advantage to have kids who are "more mature" and "ahead of the curve."

They don't want to deal with discipline issues, so they stack the deck in their own favor.  They also have a financial incentive (if they offer K) to keep the kid in their school paying tuition for another  year.  But, on the whole, I think their main motivation is to get kids who are easier to deal with and easier to teach (b/c they are older).

Public schools take everyone who meets the cut-off and they have no incentive to have you stay an extra year.  In fact, they typically won't let you choose to retain a child in K or 1st (extra cost to the district).

My kids are in FCPS, and there are a few red-shirts, but not many.  My DC is a 7/31 bday and he was not the only one with that bday or later (not red-shirted).  Typically, it seems there is 1 kid per class that is "held back."  The kids figure it out when they have bdays at school and that kid is the only one turning 8 while everyone else is 6 going on 7.

Bottom line = public school, not so common to red-shirt.
Private school = very common to red-shirt.[/quote]

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