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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again - redshirting has nothing to do with K-5.  It matters when kids hit puberty.   [/quote]

That makes no sense. The older two people get, the LESS their age difference matters. The difference between a 5-year-old and a 6-year-old is equivalent to the difference between a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old, which is obviously bigger than the difference between an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old. I understand that a year still makes a huge difference in junior high and high school, but just not as big of a difference as in elementary school. The longer you live, the smaller a fraction a year is of your life.[/quote]

You as a parent can make those years easier for the kid, or more difficult for the kid.  It is as simple as that.

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This means that the vast majority of parents choose to make school difficult for their kid, hence my confusion. If we redshirt our son, he'd be one of the only students, if not the only student, in his cohort to be redshirted, which wouldn't seem to make sense if it was as advantageous as you and so many experts say it is. Aren't parents supposed to want what's best for their kids? The idea of us being able to give our son advantage that no other parent would think to give just feels a little too good to be true.[/quote]

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