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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You really to calm down about this. Have you any idea how rare redshirting is? The only kids who are even considered for redshirting are those with fall birthdays, and even of those kids, only a tiny, TINY, minority are redshirted. We're talking less than .01 percent. So just relax.[/quote]

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