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[quote=Anonymous]Late to this ballgame but I’ll play. I was the youngest growing up with an October birthday. I hated it. I really think the maturity differences for that one year made a big impact. Academically, I was fine, but socioemotionally, it was Always a game of catch-up.

So I’m now redshirting my son who has an August birthday, but I’m doing it in an unconventional manner. He was in early stages so got an automatic seat in a coveted WOTP prek3 spot then got an automatic seat in an even more desirable Prek4 spot. So we let him start “in the system” but always with the thought that we really wanted to redshirt him. Well, now he is turning 6 and supposed to go into 1. We pulled the trigger and are having him redo K. He was able to keep up academically, though I’d say he was definitely not the furthest ahead in his class. Yet, his maturity level and ability to focus were severely behind his peers. Besides the pure age factor, his ADHD contributed to this latter point. So these are all the considerations that contributed to our decision but they all boil down to the very simply premise that I want my kid at the top of his class and not always playing catching up and towards the bottom of the curve. Redshirting gives him that leg up.

In contrast, I have another child with a June birthday whom I would never even consider “redshirting.” [/quote]

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