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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]The thing that really gets to me are the parents who come on here and post, "Why do you care if I redshirt my kid?! What does it matter to you if I didn't want him to be the youngest?" It matters to me because holding back normally developing summer birthday kids puts non-redshirted kids at a disadvantage. Now, instead of being one year younger than the older peers, they are sometimes 15 months younger than the others. Redshirting skews the age, abilities, maturity, and social capacities of a class. I wish schools would set a cut off and hold to it.[/quote]

But uh, you could also redshirt? Our child’s school effectively requires young boys to redshirt[/quote]

+1 in our 6 years of private school, my redshirted late august birthday girl has never been the oldest in the class and the youngest kid in any of her class was 11 months younger (to the day). My DD did not pu anyone at a disadvantage anymore than September/October kids do.[/quote]

She absolutely did put others at a disadvantage. The whole class gets shifted and the disadvantage goes to the kids with the May and April birthdays (and any summer kids whose parents insist on not redshirting). Please face reality, your kid did benefit but at the expense of others.[/quote]

Your feelings on this are irrelevant. Either make a case with real data or quit complaining.[/quote]

Why arent they irrevelant? Because they oppose your convenient world view?[/quote]

Because your feelings aren't supported by fact. How inconvenient for your world view.[/quote]

The point that redshirting summer birthdays shifts who is the youngest in the class does not need to be "supported by fact" because it is fact![/quote]

So what? Someones has to be the youngest. And that can be good for the youngest to be around older peers. [/quote]

Right, and I said that because the summer birthday kids all redshirt making themselves the oldest (advantage), the collateral damage of that decision falls on the May and April birthdays who then become the youngest by default (disadvanatge). So... when summer birthdays are redshirted they benefit at the expense of the May and April kids who now are the youngest in their cohort. So then the argument that it shifts the disadvantage (being the youngest in the case of this thread) stands. That was the whole point of this debate, someone claimed in an earlier post that their decision to redshirt doesnt hurt anyone and I am arguing that it does.

If it is good to be the youngest around older peers, then no one should need to redshirt in the first place. Choose your side of the argument.[/quote]

I was one of those youngest with a late spring birthday. I never thought that I was "young" and I had no such issues. I was at no disadvantage. To the contrary I was extremely competitive with my peers which only helped me in the long run. You can argue all day long but unless you pony up some facts "because I said so" isn't very convincing and isn't going to change minds.[/quote]

Right then no need to redshirt at all if being young is so great. [/quote]

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