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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where they developmentally delay or had a a good reason to be redshirted. Could ANY kid that old also choose to be redshirted without jumping those hoops with doctors or psychologists?[/quote]

I'm the PP whose kid's friend was a February-born redshirted kid. I have no idea why he was redshirted; it wasn't my business and I didn't care anyhow. I actually didn't know he was redshirted for years. He didn't seem delayed to me. He was widely regarded as one of the nicest kids in the class.[/quote]

Great kid, bright and kind, happy to have him in the class.

Redshirted summer birthdays are much much much more common. [/quote]

When you say he's bright, I assume you mean "bright" relative to the rest of his classmates. Of course he is! He's 11 months older than the 2nd-oldest student in your class and 22 months older than the youngest. I'd be worried about his IQ if he wasn't outperforming everyone. And the older a child gets, the more empathy they develop, so of course he's also kinder than his classmates. And redshirted summer birthdays are not "much much much more common". It's only kids with fall birthdays who are considered for redshirting and even most of those kids still start on time. [/quote]

You realize the vast majority of school districts have move to 9/1 or 9/30 cutoffs, right? So for all those places, summer birthday are more commonly redshirted. So they are "much much much more common" in all those places.[/quote]

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