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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except when schools allow red shirting it’s not an even playing field of kids with a range of ages within one year. I have a June birthday child who is the youngest in his grade (kids all figured this out and teacher confirmed this in earlier grades). The next youngest is a May birthday. There are about 5 birthdays in each month which means the 15 kids who would have been his younger cohort that year have been replaced by kids who are a year OR MORE older.  Maybe not a big deal in kindergarten or first grade but certainly quite a difference in older grades now. It does change the dynamic when you are testing within grades and rank/percentiles matter...not to mention socially in later years. That younger cohort is just...gone.[/quote]

Is this a private school? Sounds unlikely in public, at least in this area. If you have options, and don’t like the policy at your child’s school you have the right to move your child. You don’t have the right to force your opinion on others. There are plenty in the younger cohort at most public schools, that whole equity in education thing, lol.

Also, if at my child’s school my Sept. was going to be the youngest by 3 months there is NO way I’d send him early. How in the world is that fair, it’s only better for your June kid. [/quote]

Exactly! This is exactly it. People like you are creating this k arms race - because you’re choices are affecting others and it’s the kids who can’t afford it who get screwed. Great system.[/quote]

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