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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm willing to bet most red-shirted kids are born in July and August anyway?[/quote]

In the public schools this is 100% the case and it’s still not even that common - we’re in FCPS and my DS was redshirted with an August birthday and he and another boy with a September birthday are the only redshirted kids in their class (not sure about other classes). I think the fact that there are no school sports until HS and all the club/rec teams are by age + the fact that AAP testing is age-normed makes redshirting a lot less common. In my case, my DS really did have delays and the extra year was great for him.

In private schools, redshirting is a lot more common from what I understand. Most of the summer birthday boys are held back and some of the girls. And it can also extend into the spring birthdays as well. I think there’s a few posters on these threads who are private school parents who didn’t understand that most summer and some spring birthday kids are held back. So they have a kid with a late summer birthday who’s, like, 3 months younger than the next youngest kid and that makes them stand out. But they’re free to come to public schools where redshirting isn’t so common! [/quote]

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