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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With Sept 30 cutoff and no redshirting there are kids in these age ranges:

8th: 12-14
9th: 13-15
10th: 14-16
11th: 15-17
12th: 16-18

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Wrong[/quote]

100% correct.

8th: 12-14; most are 13 turning 14 during the school year
9th: 13-15; most are 14 turning 15
10th: 14-16; most are 15 turning 16
11th: 15-17; most are 16 turning 17
12th: 16-18; most are 17 turning 18

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Wrong. [/quote]

You’re absolutely insane and the PP is correct. I have a summer birthday and was not redshirted. I was 5 for all of K, 17 for all of senior year. A kid with a mid year birthday, say in February, would start K at 5 and turn 6 midway through the year. The oldest non-redshirted kids (in VA, those born in October) would be 5 for a few weeks at the beginning of K and turn 6 in, say, early October.

The vast majority of redshirted kids have summer birthdays. Meaning that, unlike me as a kid, they would be 6 for all of K, and 18 for all of senior year of HS. In public schools, the number of redshirted non summer bday kids in Gen ed (non-ESOL or special needs - those kids get to stay in public schools longer) is teeny tiny. It’s a higher number in private, where earlier “unofficial” cutoffs are common and a fair number of spring birthday kids are also redshirted. Of course, you’re free to leave private and slum it in public with the rest of us if you don’t like redshirted spring birthdays at private school. [/quote]

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