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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I red-shirted for similar reasons but at a much younger age. Schools in VA place children in grades not by birth year, but by age in September. Keeping my LO on the state's track would have made her the youngest every year. Not fair to her, so I kept her back to give her an advantage. I have no guilt or shame.[/quote]

Both my kids are youngest in their class every year, too - summer babies.  They are at above grade level for reading and math.  DS is smallest in his class, but extremely bright. I could not imagine how bored he'd be if I held him back. He got into GT.  Yes, he has some physical disadvantages in sports, but life is not fair.  I am not going to manipulate his life to make it fair for him.  I tell him some kids are going to be better than others in some things, like he is better in academics than most of his peers. He's not perfect and will not excel in every single thing he does.  But we still encourage him to try sports and compete with his grade level peers.    He is probably going to be one of those kids who are picked last for sports. Yes, I feel bad for him, but like I said, I will not remove every obstacle in life for him -- now that would be unfair to him.

My take on redshirting to be "fair" is if every parent felt that way, then all of our kids would start K at 7 or 8 because we'd just keep one uping each other and wanting the "best" for our kids.[/quote]

You do know everything you wrote has nothing to do with the subject of,the thread, right? In a similar vein, I had oatmeal for breakfast and my favorite color is green.   Didn't that add a lot to the topic of lacrosse and holding back middle school kids?  No? [/quote]

Actually it does have something to do with the subject. The rest of the parent that don't redshirt have to take the same approach. Hey, life is not fair, some people cheat the system, that is life but I am not going to lower my moral standard to play the redshirt game. You are going to have to work harder to be a 14 yo freshman playing varsity against somebody that is 5 years older than you. It is the same thing! I will not manipulate this situation because these kids parents were afraid they could not make the cut playing against kids their own age.

Yes. It is easier to make this statement when you have a 14yo freshman that can play against 19 yo seniors, and I get these parents know they can't say that.[/quote]

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