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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born after the cutoff but put in as the youngest because I was an early reader. It was not a good decision. Academically it was fine; I was always good academically. But middle school and high school were horrific and socially very damaging. It took a lot of therapy and work on my part to move past those years.

I hear a lot of parents on this board crowing about how bright their youngest kids are and how the redshirted kids must be dumb, and it just makes me sad. So wrapped up in their own egos, so unwilling to look at the whole child. [/quote]

And on the opposite side of the coin, I was always the youngest because I skipped a year and had a spring birthday. Did well academically and socially throughout school and going out to bars (or the lack of) was never an issue for my friends and me.  If I had friends who ditched me constantly for the bars, I wouldn't consider them good friends at all.

If you were born after the cut-off, you shouldn't have been in school that early.  You can't compare that to kids being started late for school. I'm not anti-redshirting at all, but the two situations aren't comparable.[/quote]

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