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Of course there are 6 year olds turning 7 in K, just as there are 5 year olds turning 6.

OP may be concerned with her August/September birthday child, but generally, the concern about redshirting is the children with spring and summer birthdays.[/quote]

Ok, but in that case, there aren't any 4-year-olds.

There are also aren't any 20-year-olds graduating from high school -- another DCUM phantom redshirting menace. If you delay entry to kindergarten for a year, you graduate from high school when you're 18 or 19.[/quote]

Yes, my September birthday DS was 4 when he started K in Virginia.[/quote]

And then he turned 5 less than 30 days later. And none of the kids in his class were 6 when they started K, because kids with September birthdays who start kindergarten a year late in Virginia, start when they are 5.[/quote]

It's true that no kindergartners are 4 and 7 at the same time, generally.  But there are certainly kindergartners who are 5 and 7 at the same time, in the same class together.  [/quote]

[b]How is this possible? [/b]My DD (redshirted) turned 6 on August 23rd which was the at before (or after) she started kindergarten. There were a few kids who tunrned 6 right after her and some that turned 6 in the spring/early summer. Nobody turned 7 until July. I doubt there are many redshirted kids that were born before June/July. This is in DC private school where cutoff is sept 1st[/quote]

Let's take PP's example with the Virginia cutoff of September 30. If you start a year late, and if your birthday is between October 1 and the last day of school in June, then you will turn 7 in kindergarten.

But that doesn't mean that the 7-year-olds are actually 2 years older than the 5-year-olds, except maybe for the delayed-entry kid whose birthday is October 1 compared to the on-time kid whose birthday is September 30.[/quote]

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