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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]Just enroll your kid in kindergarten already. Yes, your kid will be among the youngest and the early years of grade school will have more twists and turns, but in the long run it's better. That way, your student graduates from high school at 17 instead of 19 or 20.

Our summer birthday started college at almost 18 and will graduate with a bachelor's at 21. A lot of her redshirted peers in the same grade are already 23. They'll graduate with a bachelor's at 24/25/26. Half their 20s are already over, and now what? Grad school? They'll be almost 30 by the time they hit the workforce...

Look ahead 20 years, OP. Redshirting actually holds your kid back later.[/quote]

Red-shirting delays everything by a single year. Please explain how you think red-shirting leads to graduating with a bachelor's at 26. I simply must know how your mind works.[/quote]

How do we go from graduation at 17 to 19 or 20? What happened to 18? The age most redshirted kids will be when they graduate? Like almost all of the other kids? I have a late May birthday and even I was 18 at HS graduation.[/quote]

The discussion is about the redshirted outliers who are at least 6m from the cutoff. I think 19.5 is old to graduate personally. I can see many kids in that situation being frustrated the last year and just wanting to get out of the house. I know I did as a 17 year old senior. I can’t imagine being 2 years older and not being so ready to go away to college and have some independence. [/quote]

No it's not about the outliers. It's about redshirting in general. The majority are very close to the cutoff which makes the hyperbole about 20yr old high school graduates ridiculous. [/quote]

It’s about multiple 7 year olds in a kinder class. [/quote]

Then move to a lower income area and move to a diverse school that better aligns with your values.[/quote]

You sound like so many people pre-kids. Why don’t you actually have children before you fancy yourself an expert on this? [/quote]

I mean, that PP is correct. Your best solution to this non-problem is to leave your clearly very wealthy school district and enroll in another one that better fits your values. At least if you did that, you wouldn’t be as much of a hypocrite.

My kid’s school had very few redshirted kids. It absolutely did not have individual writing and reading tutors for kids who were a little behind the state standards; the exhausted sped educators it had were busy dealing with children who were functionally illiterate in fifth grade and sixth graders with math skills below kindergarten, in addition to children with profound emotional disabilities. The school also had a very large percentage of kids who had suffered terrible abuse, homelessness, drug addiction by middle school, and other actual serious problems. But I’m sure that you consider all of that nothing compared to the existential horror of your snowflake having to be in a class with a child six months older. Looking forward to hearing your plans for moving![/quote]

I live in a very diverse school boundary with a vast HH income range, and we STILL have a lot of redshirted kids. I'm finding that the lower income redshirts didn't go to preschool at all. Stayed home with mom or grandma or a babysitter. Not to say there aren't wealthy redshirt kids at our school, there are, but they went to preschool. 
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Are all these redshirted kids 6+ months older than everyone else or are they kids born on the cusp which is far more common of this overall uncommon practice? [/quote]

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