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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because caring for children is a nightmare and expensive. Parents send their kids as soon as they can. [/quote]

Then why did even have children in the first place? Were they forced at gun-point?[/quote]
Daycare is very expensive. It's typically $20k for an extra year of daycare. Parents weigh the other uses of that money. Forget the nightmare part of PPs post. It's not a nightmare. It's the expense. That’s also why people get so worked up about redshirting being "cheating". They feel bad about not wanting to spend the money.[/quote]

But I'm asking about affluent parents; parents for whom k20 is pennies. Clearly, they have the means to redshirt, yet the vast majority don't.[/quote]

That’s not true at private schools. In my DC’s private school class, there were very few kids with summer birthdays that went on time. The schools actively encourage red shirting and often reject kids and tell them to reapply the next year.

So when $$ truly isn’t an issue — another year of daycare/preschool vs private school tuition, most people “red shirt.” [/quote]

My son went to ritzy preschool.  The ones holding their kids back and redshirting them were the parents of kids with behavioral challenges.  Otherwise most parents would want their kid to stay with their cohort.  [/quote]

Did your kid go private in elementary? My kid’s preschool, which is a feeder for private schools, had an entire class of summer birthday kids doing another year before going to private K.  The private schools *say* their cut off is Aug. 1, but it is much earlier than that in reality.  Really more like May/June. In fact, the only two parents that I know who had kids with late summer birthdays who sent them “on time” to private school regretted it. [/quote]

I sent my kid to private with a September Birthday/5 and later public and kid is fine at both.  Zero regrets.  I cannot imagine my child being in a grade younger.  And, mine is in the advanced math classes, which are more advanced than in private.[/quote]

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