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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Redshirting is an athletic term applied to the keeping of  an athlete out of college competition for a year in order to develop the athlete's skills and extend their period of playing eligibility.   The term has crept into the early education field as the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth.  But there is a problem here: in athletics, yes, redshirting may be used to give an advantage to the team by keeping an older, stronger or more skilled player around longer.  That concept simply DOES NOT APPLY to classes.  Read the definition; the child's entry is being postponed in order to give the child a chance to grow up as needed.  It will have little to no impact on your kid.  Grades are not comparative or competitive in K, 1 or 2.  And the research show that whatever early advantage slightly older kids might have washes out after a few years (usually by 5-6th grades.)
Don't worry about it.  Your kid will be fine.

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There was a study recently showing that advantages of starting school later sustain through HS and into adulthood.[/quote]

citation please[/quote]
http://www.nber.org/papers/w23660[/quote]

This article does not study redshirting. It looks at kids who are naturally older for the grade within the cut off. [/quote]

+1.  Redshirting is different because there's a selection bias, meaning that families who redshirt may differ in systematic ways from those who choose not to.  Being naturally older for grades is a larger, different population.[/quote]

Redshirting is also statistically fairly rare. [/quote]

Between 5 and 20% of a class.  I suppose that counts as statistically fairly rare...[/quote]

Your child's class is not a statistically valid sample size. Across statistically valid samples, it is rare. [/quote]

That's what the studies say.  You agree that 5-20% is rare, then.  [/quote]

Which studies, exactly?[/quote]

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