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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here is a great article that smashes all these ADHD issues and rationalizations of red-shirting.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/youngest-kid-smartest-kid

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Well, the article also says "younger students benefit from having older peers" so not sure why everyone is freaking out.  [/quote]

Also that article suffers from huge leaps of logic.  It assumes (unwarrantedly) that redshirting is due to nothing more than a desire to game the system. I don't see the evidence for that at all.  It does not focus on kids who already have any developmental issues.  And it does not address the increased risk of ADHD diagnosis based on relative age, which has been found in many studies.  This is just more crappy science journalism.

More recent research shows that " a delayed school start dramatically reduces hyperactivity at ages 7 and 11, a measure with strong negative links to student achievement."

http://www.sole-jole.org/15074.pdf

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