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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure where the multiple posters who are claiming that redshirting (within reason) has negative effects on the redshirted child are coming from. I went to a private school with a strict June 1 cutoff for K. I have a July birthday and was required to do a year of transitional K at the school before heading on to K as a new 6 YO. Academically, I was more than ready to start K at 5, and I STILL think that waiting the extra year had long-term benefits.

I was always very advanced in reading and writing (started reading at age 3), but I struggled more with math. It just didn’t come as naturally for me, and I had to work a lot harder to do well in math every single year from elementary school all the way through high school. I’m convinced that if I had been a year younger at each grade level, I probably would have been a B math student. Instead, with the benefit of an extra year, I was able to be an A- math student. (And I worked so much harder for those grades than I worked for any of my As in other subjects.) I ended up going to an Ivy League school for college. Would I have gotten in if I had a string of Bs in math on my HS transcript? Probably not.

Do I think that spring birthdays should be redshirted absent a compelling reason? No - otherwise the age differential in a class gets too wide. However, I think that the posters claiming that redshirting harms children or that being on the older end of the class isn’t actually an advantage are just telling themselves what they want to believe. In most cases, being a bit older absolutely is an advantage. I will likely redshirt my late August birthday daughter. [/quote]

I had a kid who went from being nearly a year below grade level in math to being ahead of grade level in math within the space of a single school year. The issue was the quality of instruction, not the kid. [/quote]

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