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[quote=Anonymous]I think I agree with PP.  Let me repeat/rephrase slightly ...

Redshirting a child who is not ready to advance (for reasons physical, emotional, social, etc) can have good benefits for that child, and allow him to participate more fully in school.  Redshirting a child who is ready to advance, in hopes of gaining some academic advantage, is a futile pursuit with little benefit to the child.

The one open question some people raise is redshirting a child to obtain athletic benefits.  I have not read any research, but it seems irrefutable that some advantage could be gained there.  However, that advantage might be pretty minimal in most cases.  If a Jan-March child is redshirted so that he's 12 months older than the average classmate, and only 6 months older than the oldest classmates, how much athletic advantage does that 6 month gap really confer?  I suspect not much.  Also, contrary to what some people here hysterically claim, I suspect redshirting for purely athletic reasons is pretty rare at the schools people routinely discuss in this forum.  [/quote]

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