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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great, a "very physical" and "class clown" child who is a year older and bigger than everyone else.

That is going to be awesome. [/quote]

+1. His teachers will be ecstatic.[/quote]

...not to mention he'll be almost 2 years older than the kids with late summer/early fall birthdays. DD's is late August - [b]I'd be pretty pissed[/b] if she ended up starting kindergarten as a freshly minted 5yo with a 6 1/2 yo. Absurd. [/quote]
Why?  I don't get this attitude.  I wouldn't make the choice OP is making if she is accurately representing things, but I don't care if someone else does.  The older child is likely to be better at academics and perhaps sports, but who cares at this age.  Maybe s/he is more of a handful in class, but certainly being older doesn't automatically mean handful and the fact is, teachers need to be able to handle that.  What is your issue?[/quote]

I don't understand this either.  To each his own.[/quote]

You don't understand that I don't want my daughter in a classroom with a boy a year and a half older? What don't you get? Large amounts of redshirted children skew the expectations upward for maturity, etc. in a way that works against appropriately aged children in the classroom. OP's child (as she describes him, anyway) is already advanced in every area even BEFORE he starts his second year of pre-K, so there is little chance he won't be bored/acting up as he repeats a grade he's already ahead in. No, I don't want a much larger, much older distraction like that in my much younger and smaller child's classroom. Neither do the rest of us anti-redshirters.

Anyway, not my problem. But I feel bad for OP's child; this decision seems more likely to work against him than for him. OP sounds sanctimonious and smug, yet at the same time is trying to mask her anxiety at being "found out" by peppering her posts with lots of cocky little winky faces and LOLs. [/quote]
I guess I just think that my child can handle being in a class with some kids 1.5 year older.  Absolutely cannot see the big deal.  I'm told that redshirting is prevalent here and so far we've just never had a problem with older kids in the classroom.  [b]I could see it, a little if we are talking high school,[/b] but I was a freshman (Jan birthday) who met and started dating a senior (for 3.5 years) so I found an "older" guy anyway and I'm still ok!  This is a worry without any evidence that there is a problem (for the other kids in the class).[/quote]

...you do realize that at some point OP's son will actually BE in high school? With the same much younger cohort?

Sorry, but I fail to see how you dating a senior when you were a freshman has anything to do with anything.  ??[/quote]

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