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[quote=Anonymous]Not intentionally redshirted, but so glad it happened. Fall birthday kid. He was unusually physically active and unable to sit still at all, outside of the range of his peers.

Years later, he was flagged by the school for ADHD and diagnosed. His developmental psychiatrist told me she thought redshirting was an excellent decision (she didn't know it was accidental). She thinks anecdotally that her patients with ADHD who are redshirted tend to do better socially and emotionally, but that academically outcomes are about the same. That seems consistent with our experience.

In HS now, and doing well. He plays a sport (that sorts by birth year, so one of the youngest ones there) that he may play in college. He has always had a lot of friends. Over the years, multiple teachers told me that they grouped him with kids who were struggling socially/emotionally, because they knew those kids would be safe with him.

No regrets at all. If anything it has made me believe we should have wider age bands in school and do things the way that the Dutch do. If I had to do it again, I would consider a private school without rigid age bands and skipped the public schools entirely. So many kids are asynchronous learners, and the schools just can't deal with that well. Rigid age bands benefit very few kids, and public schools don't have enough flexibility. [/quote]

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