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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have an early September baby and the cutoff is Sept. 30.  He's not even near kindergarten, but I'm redshirting 100%.  I can afford childcare and there's no reason for my child to be the smallest in their class.  Plus, an extra year of childhood.  If you want to start your 4-year-old in kindergarten I don't care, but many of us make a different choice.[/quote]

Here's the difference-- a September baby really is on the bubble, will be the absolute youngest, and really may not be ready-- especially a boy. A May baby SHOULD be older than about 40% of his class, maybe more since there always seem to be a lot of late spring/summer babies.  The May baby is average, and the September baby is the outlier.   Everybody defending red shirting their August/ September DS is comparing apples and oranges. [/quote]

The hyperventilating anti-redshirters here on DCUM don't distinguish between people who redshirt a kid on the cusp and people who redshirt a May birthday. [b]Yours is maybe the only comment I've ever read from somebody who seems to oppose redshirting but who nonetheless points out that Aug/Sept is different than May/June[/b]. [/quote]

Then you haven't really been reading this thread.  There have been several comments saying as much, here and on the many other threads on this subject.[/quote]

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