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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, I hear that redshirting is a problem in cases in which the school has higher SES families who can afford another year of childcare expenses and lower SES families who need the financial relief of sending a kid to school, but I don't know anyone who decided based on that. And I don't know anyone who can "easily" afford $15K. "Afford it and think it's worth it," yes. Not even notice? I can't imagine that. [/quote]

There is a subset of commenters whose position seems to be--if you have a late summer birthday and the money, why NOT redshirt? (Don't know if it happens in real life or if this is just what people say on the interwebs.) It's bizarre and verges on conspicuous consumption, except we're talking about kids, not things.

There is a ton of variation among kids at every age, anyhow. I found this odd in the OP's question:

[quote=Anonymous]But I do know that if he would be the youngest boy in kindergarten by a margin of multiple months, I probably would hold him back just so he could have some similar-age peers.[/quote]

In Arlington, many of the pre-school classes are multi-age because it's perceived as being [i]better[/i] for kids, esp. the younger ones who can learn from the older ones. There is a three-year difference in ages in most of the Montessori classrooms and it doesn't seem like parents are concerned about their kids being in a room with much older kids or being left out because they are younger.

If a child's preschool teachers recommend holding off a year on kindergarten or first grade, by all means do it. If not, this is just parents creating a lot of drama about their kids, at considerable expense to themselves and probably no lasting benefits to their sons.[/quote]

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