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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends on your future plans. If you want to stay with private schools K-12, or at least until the end of middle school, keep in mind that the private schools often recommend earlier “unofficial” cutoffs and routine holding back of kids with summer and even late spring birthdays. If you are planning on starting public elementary it’s a different story. Yes, girls are redshirted too in public but it’s less common than boys and tends to be the girls born very close to the cutoff in August/September. [/quote]

We plan to stay with private through high school.[/quote]

Then honestly I would do what they recommend. There’s at least one very bitter poster on here who didn’t redshirt a summer birthday kid in private, didn’t understand the concept of private school unofficial cutoffs, and the kid is now by far the youngest in their class with behavior and experiences to match. If you were going to go to public it would be different. [/quote]

Not all young for the grade kids have behavioral problems.  So, you are saying because one child has behavioral issues, all youngest will.  [/quote]

Private schools routinely recommend redshirting the summer birthday kids and are open to redshirting the late spring kids too, especially boys. I’m just letting OP know how it is. [/quote]

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