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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never redshirt a girl if only because I witnessed the terror inflicted on the girls who developed first. I still remember the girl who had a big chest and got her period first in 5th grade. The boys were brutal.[/quote]

Yet in the VA schools forum a whole gang of parents are calling those who send Aug-Sept birthday girls on time (at 4 or newly 5) crazy. Why? Because everyone ostracizes the youngest girl.

You can’t win.[/quote]
Really? I was one of the youngest girls in class and relatively small, I think it was a good academic challenge and socially a non-issue. Girls mature faster than boys, so being a younger girl tends to be more advantageous towards the middle school years. It seemed like the girls who were very tall or busty had the bigger challenges.[/quote]

Really.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/891080.page[/quote]

It's pretty obvious that it is ONE person who has an agenda (she doesn't want her kid to bet the only redshirted one) posting this.  I know ONE girl that has been redshirted and it is because she is physically VERY small and has a late September birthday.  I was always the youngest in my class (late September birthday) yet somehow managed to graduate 2nd in my class of 500 kids and played varsity sports.[/quote]

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