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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Am making this decision currently. I’ve spoken to a lot of people who went through this…of people who did redshirt for summer bdays, I haven’t spoken to a single person who regrets it. With people who didn’t redshirt, I’ve spoken to some who don’t regret it thus far but some who do. I find myself thinking about not just now/the next year (she would do perfectly fine going now) but 10 years down the road [/quote]

Will you be ok if your daughter is the first in her class to go through puberty, who expresses normal adolescent defiance when most of her peers are still "little kids"? As someone who went through puberty on the later side I remember feeling no personal embarrassment about that (though I remember lying to friends in middle school that I'd stay gotten my period!) But I do remember the girls who were wearing bras first had a pretty tough time for a year or so.

I myself have a July birthday (turned 5 right before K) and my own DD has a November birthday so she turned 5 after K started, but our school district is very strict on their anti redshirt policy and the academic cutoff is the full calendar year (so all kids born in 2021 will start K the same year). As a result there's virtually no talk about redshirting.[/quote]

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