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[quote=Anonymous]So Much ridiculous speculating on here. Look one got an October kid and a September kid. The September kid was redshirted. He’s literally a couple weeks older than plenty of on time kids in his grade. He’s right on track with all the same abilities as his sister who fell on the other side of the cut off. It’s absurd to say someone who didn’t know his birthday would be able to identify him as redshirted. He’s of average height for his grade and fits right in with a the boys maturity wise and academics wise. It’s just the right place for him and that was obvious in preschool where he was still working on a lot of kinder readiness skills when he was 4.

I can count on one finger the times in all my three kids’ classes the times we’ve encountered a redshirted kid who seemed too big and old for his grade. I don’t think he was necessarily brighter than other kids but just huge and dominate at sports. But it was literally once. Most of us who wait with our late summer kids truly know it’s the right timing for our kid to develop and thrive.

Also we’ve known one green shirted kid, and while he was a wonderful boy and he and my son got along great, in general he was struggling a lot socially in the grade. Really the right thing is to act based on your own kids’ developmental needs and readiness and not an score about sports, boredom, etc. not fair to the kid to make decisions for them based on adult anxieties.

Finally on sports- not sure this benefits kids in the way anti redshirters believe. Many sports place kids by birth year,  or grade so it’s of no benefit to be old for your grade. Rally this is
Most sports we know ( soccer- birth year, swimming, must move up according to your birthdate, etc). For things like gymnastics and baseball, kids move up by ability / achievement. It doesn’t matter what grade or age you are.[/quote]

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