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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I had to do it over, I would have had all of my kids born in August and I would have redshirted them.  Even the girls.

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Why not just have all your kids in January, so that they would be the oldest by default?[/quote]

Holy sh*t you are really not getting it. The cutoff isn’t 12/31 here!!!!! It’s only 12/31 or 12/1 in your little NYC-area bubble. The entire rest of the country has a cutoff of 9/30 or earlier. A kid with a January birthday is middle of the pack, birthday/age-wise. [/quote]

Okay, so in that case, they should have all their kids in October. The bottom line, if you want child to be the oldest, you should have them right after the cut-off, whenever that is. Then you don't have to worry about redshirting. The point I'm trying to make is that parents who redshirt their kids are breaking the rules to fix a problem that they created for themselves.[/quote]

Again, nope. The literal law in Virginia (can’t speak to MD or DC) is that the compulsory age for education is 6. Not 5. If redshirting was illegal, parents across the country would be in jail or fined for it. But it’s not. You just have to inform the school that your kid won’t be attending K right when he/she turns 5 and that’s it. [/quote]

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