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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many anti-redshirters on this Board have expressed major concerns over the older age and size intimidating their children and depriving their children of opportunities in sports and classroom leadership positions, robbing their little Rhodes Scholars of essential hooks for future "Ivy" and power brokering on "Wall Street" (owning a professional sports team).

If this is true I understand their obsession and neurosis over redshirting.  And why some families , rightly or wrongly, choose to redshirt their children.[/quote]

The overall theme is not one of feeling older kids will steal an opportunity or slight someone else. It seems the overall belief is there are no real proven advantages to redshirting, so we question the real motives behind it, that's the real question people skated around for hundreds of threads to get to. The last few posters are hitting the nails on the head and getting us close to the root causes of the driving factors influencing parents' decisions to redshirt the Aidens, Braydens, and Joshuas from the burbs'. There is possibly a deeper rooted issue that stems from cultural fears, which is driving this widespread trend that persists out of group generated panic.[/quote]

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