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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just enroll your kid in kindergarten already. Yes, your kid will be among the youngest and the early years of grade school will have more twists and turns, but in the long run it's better. That way, your student graduates from high school at 17 instead of 19 or 20.

Our summer birthday started college at almost 18 and will graduate with a bachelor's at 21. A lot of her redshirted peers in the same grade are already 23. They'll graduate with a bachelor's at 24/25/26. Half their 20s are already over, and now what? Grad school? They'll be almost 30 by the time they hit the workforce...

Look ahead 20 years, OP. Redshirting actually holds your kid back later.[/quote]

Agree.  It is unfair to make your kid graduate high school when they are 19 or almost 19. [/quote]

Right on cue, the inability to do math pops up. [/quote]

np. I was like OP's child. My birthday almost always fell the first week of school. I turned 17 at the start of my senior year in high school, and turned 18 at the start of undergrad. If I had been redshirted, I would have turned 19 (not 18) during the first week of college, my freshman year.

A kid who is redshirted with a May or June birthday would be 6 in September of their kindergarten year, but 7 at the end of that same academic year, assuming the academic calendar ends in June.  Twelve years later, that same kid would be 18 at the start of their senior year and just turning 19 at the end.

Unlike pp, I don't really care whether you or anyone else redshirts, but she's right about kids graduating at age 19 or almost 19. It is possible.[/quote]

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