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This is what the complainers always say.  That they somehow think parents are cheating.  They really have no idea of the variety of kids out there and the reasons parents make this decision.  And they have younger children,more often than not.  Those of us with high school kids can tell you it really, really doesn't make a difference.  Chill out.  There's really nothing to be gained by working yourself up over what you perceive to be someone else's vanity.[/quote]

You say that, but my conversations with the PreK, K, 1, 2, 3 grade teachers who are impacted by the decisions suggests otherwise.  Sure, by high school, they have all gone through puberty, have the option for drivers licenses and can compete physically with each other on the fields and courts.  In the younger years, the academics and social structures are being engineered by parents who are making a determination that their child, based on no physical or mental impairments, need more time so they can be groomed into leaders and class achievers.  At the end of the day, their kids realize they are being paired with kids a year younger.  It is sad, and the school administrators should not encourage it.

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How about this approach, then?  If you know the school administration is in favor of having older kids in the class, particularly boys, and it bothers you, then either red-shirt your kid if it's that big of a deal to you, or send your kid elsewhere.  The school administrations are largely in favor of red-shirting for at least half of the summer boy applicants it seems (more at our kids' school).  It sounds like you don't like a school's determination as to class make-up.  So vote with your feet.  I have a DS who is a redshirted August birthday boy, and well as a May birthday girl who will be in class with boys, horror, a year older than she is.  They are both wholly developmentally appropriate for their grades.  And that's one of the things I love about independent schools, that they aren't required to take an arbitrary date to decide who should be in what grade, and instead can look at the kid.  If you want bright line rules, go to a school that has them.  Lots of us prefer the more individualized assessment.

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