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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would NOT hold a May birthday child back unless there are significant cognitive issues at play.  I have a June child who I did not hold back.  She is one of the youngest in her class.  She has always been in the top reading/math groups though.  Plus, socially, there were plenty of other kids with late spring/summer birthdays.  I child with a May birthday will turn 7 in K.  There will be an almost 2 year age difference between your child and a child with a late summer birthday who goes on time.  That's just to big a spread IMHO.[/quote] I’m against redshirting a May birthday kid too but your math is wrong. There will not be an “almost 2 year age difference” between ops potentially redshirted kid and a late summer bday kid who goes on time. In this scenario OP’s kid would turn 6 in May 2020 so born 2014, the youngest kid in the class would turn 5 in August 2020 so would have been born 2015, or at most 15 months younger than OP’s kid.

Anyway, it’s ridiculous to redshirt a May bday. My siblings and I all have late summer and early fall birthdays and all went on time. We grew up in Tennessee too coincidentally.[/quote]

If we go on time our May 30 son will be younger by 16 months Feb boys who redshirt. It is a significant gap at that age. It's more than 20% his age. For kids in August who go on time, it's a 19 month gap....[/quote]

No one w a feb bday kid should be redshirting. That’s crazy.[/quote]

Ok, feb to May is 3 months not 4, feb to August is 6 months not 7. You  are exaggerating the potential age gaps. Yes, 15 or 18 months difference is still very big. But realistically how many kids w February bdays will be redshirted? My guess is very few if any.[/quote]

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