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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sure it would be hard to have a 20 year old senior, fortunately that doesn’t really happen. [/quote]

There are plenty of 19 year old seniors.  Way to old.   Especially when some start high school at 13.[/quote]

If they are 19 during their senior year then they have a fall/spring birthday and were redshirted one year. It's uncommon for fall/spring birthday kids to be redshirted.

So not "plenty". 
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It is common for spring birthdays, don’t be naive. [/quote]

Not in the DC area - except for maybe a handful of privates. [/quote]
+1 I've been a public school teacher in the DC area for 28 years; spring birthday redshirts are definitely rare. [/quote]

2 neighbors have April birthdays who are both redshirted and my child has a classmate who has a February birthday who is also redshirted. 
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Where is this?

Did they just start K? Maybe parents were worried about covid since they didn’t have vaccine last fall. 
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These are all teenage kids so no, not covid related. [/quote]

Where is this? DC area? Public or private?

Redshirting spring birthdays is uncommon in DC area - except for a handful of private schools. And maybe this batch of covid Kindergarteners.

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Yes, dc area and both public and private. No, it is not uncommon, it has been our experience since preschool and I work in the school system. It’s absurd. [/quote]

Which public school system in the DC area has common spring redshirting? 
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+1 I’m not really buying it. Occasional, sure. There’s always outliers. But I’ve lived here 12 years and have 2 kids in public school and almost all redshirted kids I know have July-September birthdays. I also know 2 redshirted May/June birthday boys who both had extenuating circumstances, one moved to the US from overseas as a 4 year old and couldn’t adjust to school and the other was a preemie at birth who’s actual due date wasn’t until well into the summer and had some lasting delays due to prematurity. Again, uncommon edge cases and both of the kids had birthdays right around the last day of school anyway. So I guess they’d each be 19 for like 2 weeks of senior year? Oh no, how awful. [/quote]

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