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[quote=Anonymous]I am normally very much of the "don't redshirt without specific reasons" crowd. But I live somewhere with a September cut-off, and also a place where parents are sort of intense and very competitive and a lot of the redshirting is done with this vague idea of "advantage."

In OP's case, I would redshirt because I think 4 is really young for kindergarten. That was a huge transition year for my DD, who started K at 5, and there were a lot of growing pains associated with the shift in expectations. I think going through it starting at 4 would have been a LOT.

Separately, I also think that kindergarten has become steadily more academic, with more sitting and worksheets and far less experiential learning (aka play-based learning) than when I was a kid. My kindergarten was half day and was more of a bridge between preschool and 1st grade than what my DD got, which honestly just looked like 1st grade to me. From talking to other parents, I think this is a common observation. I wonder if redshirting would be less common if kindergarten was treated more gently as a time for transitional skill building, retaining more of the quality of preschool.

But in any case, my experience with K for my own 5 year old would make me very reluctant to send a 4 yr old. I would redshirt.[/quote]

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