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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never said the older kid was dumber.  As a matter of fact,  I say the older kid is usually perfectly avergage or above average which makes the decision to redshirt him all the more frustrating.  I get annoyed with parents who get excited that their 6 year old kid excels at doing 5 year old work.

Again, this is not directed to the small % of redshirt parents who have a developmentally challenged kid.  It's for vast majority of redshirt parents looking to make their kid look better/feel better by dominating a younger group of kids.   [/quote]

Then are you directing it a parents of summer birthday boys who are at schools where parents are transparently told before submitting applications that over half (and a growing number) of summer birthday boys are redshirted and that, while it is done on a case-by-case basis, they should expect that their child will likely be advised to be redshirted?  Maybe the schools are saying that, at their school they feel that the work in a particular grade is sufficiently advanced to be appropriate for somewhat older kids.  This is what we heard at our son's school when we considered applying for him for pre-K starting at age 4, at an open house, with nobody having met him.  Parents know (or should know by researching) going in that the class has older kids, and can decide for themselves whether to have their child be on the older side, the younger side, or go elsewhere.  I don't want my kid to dominate anyone.  I do, however, trust that his school knows what it's doing in class placement.  And FWIW, all of the kids in his class (though not in his grade) were born within a May to May year, so nobody with any dinosaurs (!) in the group.[/quote]

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