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[quote=Anonymous]I don't recall kids making a big deal of this growing up, but yes, by the time we got to upper elementary/middle school, we were certainly "aware" if a classmate was as old as the kids a grade older. The obvious assumption was that the kid was held back a year for some reason... we had kids who were coming from another country, and that transition to the US also often resulted in the kids being repeating a year, then there some with obvious social development or other issues, and of course some who were obviously remedial academically (and even though a year older, usually still struggled to keep up). Nobody assumed it was voluntary/advantageous to be held back (was redshirting as frequent in CA in the 80s? I don't know), we just assumed that there was _some_ reason the kid had to be held back a year, often that reason was obvious and went without saying, it was really the international kids who were the only ones who ever talked about it and explained why (probably just to be clear that it wasn't because they were challenged and avoid any such perception/stigma).[/quote]

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