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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Redshirting is most commonly practiced by white UMC boys. That’s how i know it’s beneficial, the most socially powerful group engages in it and now that same group is trying to gaslight people to look the other way so that they can  maintain the unfair playing field. [/quote]

This is ridiculous. Kids can get all sorts of advantages. Some are related to wealth and age, others to birth order, environment, etc.
My UMC white boy has a March birthday. At my daughters current private school he will be among the youngest. He is my third and while he is behind where his sisters were at his age, just having older siblings (and first at that) has helped him enormously. There are advantages that come from not being an only child (or for being one), for being the first born, the middle or last; from being young for grade and old for grade. 
Those specific challenges/advantages are true only for the specific kid they apply to. 
A young for grade child may need to focus and get more teacher’s attention to learn and tht cannot happen with a disruptive summer birthday child tht could have been redshirted… and many other examples like that.

In my country, redshirted is not common, but skipping a grade is… is that bad? Does that put some kids at a disadvantage? I think leaving parents/children/teachers the ability to decide when to start school is a great way to fix some small issues.l kids might have.[/quote]

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