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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know. It's weird that my 4 year old is in a kindergarten class with a boy who just turned 7.[/quote]

And when she enters her senior year of high school, that 7 yo will turn 20.[/quote]

These redshirting threads are great people-watching due to the consistently undereducated and math-challenged posters.  Bear with me here as I walk you through this.  If someone turns 7 in kindergarten, that child had to be 6 at the start of the year to be consistent with VA laws.  Add 1 to 6 and you get 7 sometime during the kindergarten year.  Given that parents rarely hold back a fall child, that 7th birthday is likely sometime in the spring.  In first grade, that child will turn 8.  So, here is where it gets tricky.  One plus eleven equals 12 for twelfth grade (that's the grade for high school seniors).  Add a corresponding 11 to the 8-year-old first grader and you get 19 . . . sometime in the spring.  My god, you're right, the horror!!  19 in highschool!  I didn't turn 19 until November of my freshman year in college.  That is wildly different.  (Tune in for my next post, where I explain the literary concept of sarcasm.)[/quote]

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