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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"mixed age clasroom" is fine if you are Laura and Mary Ingalls. Having a mixed age classroom in 1st grade is ridiculous.[/quote] Yeah, but holding back a summer-birthday boy is not creating a "mixed age" classroom in the mold of Little House. In a "normal age" classroom, the oldest kids will be about 84 months old at the beginning of the school year (7 yrs old). A summer-birthday child who gets into the class will be about 85-87 months old (1-4% difference). A spring-birthday child will be 88-90 months old (5-7% difference). That's not much difference at all. When people criticize redshirts, they invariably point to the 13-18 month age spread between the youngest child in the class and the oldest redshirt child. But most of that age spread is just the normal 12-month age spread that is unavoidable in any classroom, regardless of redshirting. The marginal difference from redshirting is tiny.[/quote]
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