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If you could only redshirt for documented reasons then we wouldn’t be having this conversation.  [/quote]

Then talk to your elected officials (for public school) or school administration (for private school) about changing the laws/rules.[/quote]

+1.  I have never understood how worked up people get about this but if you feel so strongly about redshirting, reach out to your school board and demand change.[/quote]

They can’t because they don’t have any legitimate reasons to change the policy. They just like to be busy bodies and judge other parents. If it wasn’t redshirting it’d just be something else. 
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I think I see things other people don’t see when they don’t have such a young kid who went on time, so that’s why I am choosing to speak out. 
For example, if we said you couldn’t play HS sports after a certain age that could help stop sports redshirting. But the high schools care about winning, they don’t care about it being more difficult for younger kids. (To be clear, I am aware that kids who are really good at sports can compete against and beat kids well over a year older than them - I just don’t think that’s the majority of kids). 
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It depend on the sport.  If we held our child back, he would not be able to compete senior year as he would miss the age cut off for swim.[/quote]

This is just a real question - there are age cut offs for Swimming in Hs?  It goes by age and not grade like other Hs sports?  I’m not asking about club swimming outside of school - but the actual high school swim team. [/quote]

Not sure about high school as we aren't there yet, but the high school teams are only about 2-3 months and most kids are doing club swimming.  My kid has an early fall birthday so if we started him a year later he would not be able to summer swim (if he does it) with the summer swim team being 19 as it goes by ages.[/quote]

Yes but literally no one redshirts an early fall kid.  That's ridiculous.  They're already the oldest in their class.  That would mean they start K at age 7 instead of 5. [/quote]

I appreciated the sentiment in the Pp’s reply but I think HS Swimming goes by grade not age. I don’t think anyone is considering summer swim relating to redshirting decisions and eligibility for the last summer prior to attending college (recruited athletes would already have committed at that point) and as far as I can quickly tell there’s no age limit for participation in USA club swimming year round. [/quote]

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