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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Easy to redshirt. Fast forward. Harder when it's a 19 year old man still in high school.
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I would have been so mad at my parents for doing this to me. Imagine how it would feel to be 19 and still have to go to high school. [/quote]

Rare. The vast, vast majority of redshirted kids graduate at 18. The one I know who will graduate at 19 had severe medical issues that caused him to miss a lot of school when he was young. If they’re graduating at that age there’s usually a reason. [/quote]

Pretty much all the redshirted kids I know are summer boys. They will be 18 at graduation. Even if they turn 19 in May-June few will notice or care with all of the graduation and end of school year stuff.

All the other cases we know are outliers (medical issues, or were held back in school to repeat K or 1st). We know a boy who will 
turn 19 in January of his senior year when the time comes…he is totally fine now but was in the hospital for months (years?) on and off when he was a preschooler due to severe medical issues.  Started late for that reason. The family doesn’t like to discuss it, so most new classmates etc would not know the backstory. They would just see a strong smart healthy boy and think the parents were trying to “cheat”
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