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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the aggregate, girls mature faster than boys in the early years. Not always, of course, but MOST girls do. I think redshirting benefits MOST boys born shortly before the cutoff. IME, it usually doesn't benefit girls. The girls are still more mature and ready for kindergarten than a good chunk of the boys.

IME, as bad as it is for a girl to experience puberty later than her middle school classmates, it is FAR worse for a girl to experience it earlier than the other girls in her class. Being the only 5th grade girl who has a period isn't fun. Developing breasts before the other girls is also tough. It sometimes attracts attention from older boys and even men that is really hard to deal with. When most of your female classmates are going through puberty at the same time, a girl isn't likely to be singled out as much as a girl who is ahead of her classmates time-wise.

As others have said, OP doesn't yet know what her D will be like. So, no decisions have to be made yet.

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Yeah, I would worry about this. Much more risky for a girl to be much older than her peers.

Fwiw our DC school experience did not have any redshirted kids. Pepper feel within the cutoffs except for a couple who moved here from pieces with different cutoff dates. And by high school a lot of the high academic performers are the ones on the young side. And the kids are heard about vaping and worse in the bathroom in middle school are the older ones.[/quote]

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