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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had an August baby. He was very bright but on the shy side. He went to a Catholic school and they suggested “pre-first” which is essentially redshirting. They didjt think he was socially ready.  It seemed to me like a money grab to get an extra year of $$$ from us.

I had been fretting about it. My neighbor, who teaches at a HS, said he has watched this dynamic for years, and in almost all cases, the parents who rushed their kids ahead regretted it and those who waited/“redshirted” were glad they did.

He did prefirst and the cohort he was with was SO much better than the grad above.

My own brother had a great argument based on his experience with an August baby: “You either get an extra year of childhood or an extra year of adulthood, and childhood already goes too fast.”[/quote]

Sadly you don't gain an extra year of childhood by starting formal school a year behind. Being in school is not robbing anyone of their childhood. School is fun for most kids.[/quote]

I think he meant from the parents’ point of view. You definitely get an extra year of childhood because the child is home for one more year before college, etc.[/quote]

I mean, it’s also essentially an extra year of childhood (defined as living at home without adult responsibilities) from the child’s point of view. A high school senior is a high school senior. It’s not like the experience of an 18 YO senior is really any different from that of a 17 YO senior.

I was sent to school “on time” but have a September birthday and was 18 for basically my entire senior year. My senior year of high school definitely felt more like childhood than my freshman year of college, so I do think I got an extra year of childhood that I wouldn’t have had if I had been born a few weeks earlier and graduated from high school a year earlier. I didn’t resent being an 18 YO senior or really even think twice about it. And now as an adult, I’m glad I had that last year at home before college and then the real world since I agree with other posters that childhood is too short![/quote]

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