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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most kids would feel insulted if they were redshirted; like their parents thought they weren't smart enough to be on a normal schedule.[/quote]

I know my son would. He'd be embarrassed to tell other people how old he was turning.[/quote]

Doesn't this depend on the kid's birthday?  My kid wasn't redshirted but gets upset that she is always the youngest.  She gets left out of summer camps with age cutoffs and plays down a level in team sports (the right age, but lower grade, so not with her classmates).  It's very frustrating to her.  If we lived in Maryland she'd be in the lower grade, but we're in Virginia with a Sept 30th cutoff.  If anything, she's embarrassed by her birthday now because she doesn't like being the youngest.[/quote]

She's not having to go those summer camps any later in her life. She's just completing her education [i]earlier[/i] in her life. She'd be playing with the same sports teams that she is in this moment in time even if she were a grade below. The only difference is that she would be less educated. [/quote]

Yeah, but she's being left out.  Her whole girl scout troop signed up for camp together.  She is the only one who can't go because she's too young.  Her besties from preschool signed up for swim team.  She can't be at their practice because she swims with the lower age group.  Her best friend from school wanted her to sign up for the same day camp that includes a trip to a water park, but she can't because she doesn't make the age cutoff.   I promise you that she doesn't care one but how educated she is for being 7, but she absolutely cares about being with her classmates.  And no, it doesn't make her feel better when I tell her she can go next year with a group of kids she doesn't know from the grade behind her.[/quote]

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