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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have three May birthdays (so really not so different from July).  I think that the red shirted kids have a significant advantage in kindergarten-second grade, but by then it kind of dissipates.  By fourth grade I would say that there is no difference.  There are a good number of kids that are red shirted, so they are older, but I would say its actually a disadvantage once you get to a certain age.  They age out of rec sports differently, their bodies are kind of a year ahead developmentally, etc.  None of these things really matter, but I don't think that most people would say red shirting is a good idea off of dcum in real life.

Most kindergartners do not know how to read.  Most do not even recognize all of their letters or numbers.  They catch up.

People are right about next year being a larger kindergarten class year (maybe, who knows, maybe people won't come back in droves).  I'm not sure that matters because individual classes are small, and its possible most people who red shirted this year will end up being unhappy with aps and going private/moving out of the area.  I wouldn't let that dissuade you one way or the other.  [/quote]

Three kids, all boys, two July birthdays and one August. They started on time and it was fine. I guess they seemed younger than some of their classmates, but they found sports where height didn't matter and friends who liked the same things they did.

Some of the red-shirted kids were kind of mean, TBH, as though being older is always better. I guess maybe it seems that way when you're 7. Or maybe they were held back for social reasons and still hadn't caught up on that front.

Full disclosure: I know some parents who started their kids on time and second-guessed themselves for years. And I know some who held their kids back and it kinda stank for the kids in the early years, because they wanted to play with kids their age at recess, and most of them were in a different grade. But it's one of those things that sorts itself out over time. [/quote]

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