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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would definitely redshirt in your situation OP. I have a child who will start kindergarten in the fall and I would love to redshirt her, but she would be too old. I’m not worried about the missed months of preschool, I just know that this thing is far from over. While the kids may go back to school on time, it will be a very disruptive year. I imagine they will have to go back and forth from in school teaching and online learning. A May born, small boy, I would definitely wait given what the fall will look like. [/quote]

I agree.  The loss of preschool is no big deal, but the potential cluster F of what school will look like next year is a bigger deal.[/quote]

Another possibility nobody wants to think about is that online learning might happen for more than one year. All the kids are going to be behind what they would normally be working on for their age because of the difficulties of online instruction. This is going to be even worse for the redshirted kids.[/quote]

I don’t think redshirted kids will be further behind.  They might by age, but grade is far more relevant.  By that metric, they wouldn’t be at a relative disadvantage and may be a little better off because you can get more out of distance learning as you get old and have a better attention span.[/quote]

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