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[quote=Anonymous]I have two summer bday "redshirted" boys. They were TKed for different, but what felt to be very significant, reasons at the time. I paid 0 attention to how old their peers were and as they aged there was only 1 year, with 1 kid, where I was worried it might have been a mistake, but the following year it was all fine again. I can't imagine many parents are TKing their 4-5 year olds planning for any sort of an "advantage" in the future, and if they are there are likely a lot of other problems going on in that parenting mindset. That said, I have met a handful of redshirted 8th graders who changed schools and were absolutely hoping for a sport advantage, and now that I have college-aged kids I know there are quite a few who go to boarding school for a 13th year as another layer of redshirting before college. With covid extending eligibility for that cohort of college students it does create a backlog of kids who want to be recruited. [/quote]
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