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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At that point they will green-shirt. [/quote]

I can't understand parents who green-shirt. It's almost as if they want their kid to do less well.[/quote]

Not if the kid is advanced socially, academically, emotionally, mentally and physically. If you have an anxious kid who is struggling with normal social interactions, academics, physical dexterity, mental acuity etc  it makes sense to redshirt them. Similarly if you have a high performing, confident, high IQ and EQ kids in a stable and happy family then they need to be green-shirted so that they can get the instruction and socialization for which they are ready.

I have never seen a green-shirted kid do poorly as most of them are high achievers.

The red-shirted kids on the other hand are perpetually behind, insecure and odd. [/quote]
This is just so black and white that it can't possibly be correct.  I have a kid born within days of the cutoff.  In her current grade, she would have been greenshirted in Maryland, but went on time in Virginia.  If we'd lived on the other side of the border and we'd followed the Maryland cutoff, she would have gone on time in Maryland and been redshirted in Virginia.  Which one is the "correct" grade?

So far she's at the top of her grade academically, even as the youngest.  But she finds it emotionally hard.  She really wants to play more, have less seat time, and she struggles with some of the executive functioning expectations that come with being in the higher grade.  She also finds it socially hard to be the youngest.  It's hard to keep up when the majority of kids are 10-15 months older.  I have no doubt that she'd have had less stress in the lower grade.[/quote]

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