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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I agree. My son is in 1st grade and there are a number of redshirted or otherwise held back boys in his class that are more than a year older. They are genuinely nice kids, but socially, they have nothing in common with a 6 year old. If too many parents do it, or too many kids are held back for academic or attendance reasons by the school, it creates an inappropriate social environment for the kids who are the expected age for their grade.

Are you honestly saying a 7 year old has nothing in common with a 6 year old? You can't be serious. I would guess 70% of 1st graders will turn 7 during 1st grade. [/quote]

A number of these kids turned 8 early this year, not 7.  Whatever, deny it is an issue if you want, you are not there.  Fortunately we are moving next year so it won't be an issue any more for us either.  [/quote]

We have two kids who turned 8 the past month or two in 1st.  The rest are 6 and 7.  Big difference between 6 and 8.[/quote]

You are talking about 2 kids.  As you mention the rest are 6 or 7.  Are these two kids really having that big of an impact on the rest of the class? [/quote]

Yes.  The redshirted kids fall into one of two categories: those who are socially awkward and need OT or something like it (and being older doesn't help with this), and those who are just flat-out too old and big.  Boys in both groups (yes, they seem always to be boys) end up taking way more than their proportional share of the teachers' time, dominating conversations, and generally disrupting what would otherwise be a perfectly pleasant school experience.  [/quote]

You have no idea if they would be less disruptive if they were 6 or 7.  They might have been even more so.  There is a kid in DS's class who is ALWAYS in trouble and always distracting the class.  He went on time. 
Disruptive kids need to be addressed regardless of whether they are 6,7 or 8.  I agree that no one child should be able to dominate the teacher's attention.  I am not positive that red-shirting is the cause of this behavior and neither are you.

FWIW my son went on time but I would have no issue with an almost or already 8 year old in his class.  What would bothers me is a child of any age disrupting the class.  Where I do agree with you is that boys tend to be rowdier than girls at this age.
DS and I talk about this all the time.  [/quote]

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