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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You are wrong.  Her post is clearly relevant. You may not like what she had to say (lemme guess - you redshirted your kid) but that doesn't make her post irrelevant. [/quote]

I get thread drift, but both PPs were so clearly chomping at the bit to just talk to someone, ANYone, about their solid-in-math kids, who are young for their grades because they didn't hold them back at age 5.

If this were now simple thread drift, and we're just going where the subject takes us naturally, I would now tell you that my daughter recently won a national math prize and she, too, is the typical age for her grade.  I just want the best for her.  Her name starts with an "L" and so does "lacrosse," which is what the article was about on page one.

I really want anonymous people to validate my choice to encourage my daughter's interests in math.   Let's talk about math some more, shall we?  Or how girls get the short shrift in mathematics programs in universities.   [/quote]

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