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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a fall son who just started preschool. Unsure what we will do. Not every study shows that redshirting is advantageous - some studies show that young birthdays do better academically then the older class birthdays. I will take cues from his preschool and the kindergarten he will attend. I don’t want to redshirt him and have him be bored, either. He’s in 3s now and I see a big difference between him and kids a year younger. [/quote]

I would go read the actual studies. Most of the popular reporting around redshirting is, to be blunt, absolutely terrible and misrepresents what the actual studies say. Plus, the articles pull from studies from, say, high school students in the 1950s (without saying that in the articles). Then there are the studies themselves. The academic work here is actually fairly thin and not very good, generally speaking.

The only real studies of any academic heft tend to come sideways out of population studies of ADHD. But that isn't looking at redshirting directly. [/quote]

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