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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a lot of research going both ways.  I tried reading it a couple years ago, but got frustrated because lots of the research is pushed by agenda-drive groups.  It seems this issue is a bit of a football.[/quote]
PP again.  One comment on the research I've read.  It often is not really applicable to the practical realities of what people are discussing here.  This is because most research compares children who are starting school for the very first time.  So it is comparing children who start K at age 5, versus those who start at age 6.  And what it really ends up assessing is the impact of delaying the beginning of a child's education.

But for most people on these boards, it seems that children are pretty actively enrolled in preschool and PK programs.  So children who delay K entry for a year are not just sitting at home without any school development.  Instead, they're effectively getting an extra year of schooling, since they will be repeating a year of school.

I'm not sure that this dynamic cuts for or against redshirting, but it does present a big disconnect with lots of the research.[/quote]

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