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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about boys who were not redshirted for K, went to public, and then try to transfer into public for the 4-6th grade years? Do the schools want them to repeat in many cases?[/quote]
I think you mean boys who went public and then transfer to private.  At our DC public, the younger (not red-shirted) boys who enter privates in 4th grade do so after completing 4th grade at our public school.  Very strange.  You have a boy repeating 4th grade just so he can be "older" like the rest of the boys in his new cohort.  Very odd system here.  I should say this happens with girls also but not as often as with the boys.[/quote]
So they need to take 4th grade twice to keep up with private school students?  Maybe their public school 4th grade experience is not rigorous enough?[/quote]

It seems mostly to do with the social piece as a young summer bday boy who does not repeat if he transfers in is going to be an outlier in terms of age at most privates. I work at a private school and there is only 1 non-redshirted summer bday boy in the grade I work with. So even if you have a kid who could do the work, they are going to be the youngest by several months--this can be a disadvantage socially once you reach HS and parents fear this. It is a messed-up system...[/quote]

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