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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey OP, one of my kindergarten students just celebrated his 7th birthday at school.  Everyone was totally cool with it!  Just wanted to keep you updated--so far all the children are still alive.  We'll see what happens tomorrow.[/quote]

And how many kids in your class started at age 4 turning 5 in September per the actual cutoff?[/quote]

Cutoff is Sept. 1 in my district.  No 4-year-olds this year, and two kids turned 6 in September.  [/quote]

Ok then. How many August boys started who just turned 5?[/quote]

no idea - who cares.[/quote]

Come on. Your kindergarten class isn't that big that you can't find this out. You posted about the child turning 7 in kindergarten. You can check how many kids came in to your class on time just before the cutoff or who decided to also hold their child back. It will show if this child is an outlier or if this is a trend at your school to redshirt.[/quote]

K teacher poster here, killing time in the doctor's waiting room.  I did not post the "who cares" response.  I would have used proper punctuation, and I actually do know most of my students' birthdays, within the general time of year at least.  The 7-year-old is unusual, I will say, but my point is that having this unusual circumstance does not necessarily mean terrible things for all the other students.  In my 10+ years of teaching K, I can recall one other child who turned 7 during the year, and she was an international student with no prior school experience, so she was placed in K when she came.  Also, I think her birthday was very late in the school year, in May or June.  But you know what?  It doesn't automatically affect the others negatively.  There are many things that contribute to the dynamics of a class.  Some years are heavy on one gender and light on the other.  That can affect the class, but that doesn't mean we have to stop it from happening.

I have also in the past had many students who turned 5 right before or on the first day of school.  The trend at my school is to send on time, but red-shirting, for whatever reason, is not unheard of.  If people are really wanting to know specifics for my current class, the 7-year-old is my only "red-shirt."  Some years I have one, some years I have zero, every now and then I have had two, but never more than two.  As I said, I have several who turned 6 early in the year.  I have (counting on my fingers here and relying on memory, not my birthday wall) I think 4 students with summer birthdays, boys and girls, who turned 5 then.

So, 17 students, 16 of which started at age 5, one started at age 6.[/quote]

So in my child's K class in VA where there is no early admittance, 1/4 of the kids are redshirted. Do you think this would make a difference to the makeup of your classroom?[/quote]

I find it hard to believe a quarter are red-shirted because of the distribution of birthdays throughout the year and the fact that most redshirted kids are boys - but okay if you say so.[/quote]

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