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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sent my July birthday kid late, with a Sept 1 cutoff there isn't 17 month age difference in the grade. All the teachers encouraged giving the gift of time and I have never had a regret. I could not care less what any parent thinks of my kid being a few months older than any other kid.[/quote]

Of course [i]you[/i] didn't have any regrets. There was no personal harm to you and your son. But think of those poor August-born kids who had to put up with someone 13 months older than them.[/quote]

DP. You are the tragically obsessed redshirting troll, so I get reasoning with you is not possible, but FYI, kids do just fine with this. My kid (not redshirted) was in a mixed age classroom and the kids all did great. There was a nearly three year difference in age. [/quote]

Yeah, but in that sort of situation, the teachers recognize that ther [i]is[/i] an age discrepancy. No going is going to hold a Kindergartener to the same standards as a 1st-grader. But most teachers aren't going to expect more from a 6-year-old Kindergartener than from a 5-year-old Kindergartener, even though they really should. That's what makes redshirting wrong.[/quote]

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