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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So glad I never had to worry about this. We have a sept 1st cutoff and all of my kids are sept and oct bdays. [/quote]

Yes, but OP incorrectly lumps you in with redshirting. I think there is a lot less redshirting than people assume— they are just bad at reading the calendar.[/quote]

Natural law anti-redshirter is entertaining for sure. [/quote]

What I meant by natural law in this case was the way things were meant to be. [b]School was designed to group kids by age with no overlap.[/b] School was designed so that the youngest student in grade n would always be older than the oldest student in grade n-1. Redshirting open up the possibility of this rule being violated Let's say a kid born at the beginning of October is redshirted. That means that they'll be older than roughly a quarter of the kids in the grade above them. It is not normal or natural for there to be a case of a student in grade n being younger than a student in grade n-1. This is why I'm against both redshirting and greenshirting.[/quote]

Personally, I'm generally pretty tepid on (but not anti-) red/greenshirting unless there's a strong developmental reason (vs. just "personal preference" reason)... but the bolded statement stands out as what seems like you just stating personal preference/opinion as if it were fact.  Do you have any source to support this claim?  It seems obviously false on the face of it, except in only the most basic/simplistic understanding of how educational systems are desgined.[/quote]

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