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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of 22 year old son here. This red shirting thing has been around a while and here’s my perspective, and what I wish I had done. Son was April birthday with September 30 cut off. He was big for his age, so we sent him on to KG age 5 1/2.

He was “smart” in that his math skills were way high, but he was immature with language and social skills. He wasn’t diagnosed with inattentive ADHD until grade 4 when he couldn’t follow directions or stay on task for more than a minute. Fast forward failed out of college and is doing fine, but no degree in the near future.

If I had had a crystal ball: definitely would have red shirted AND done a gap year after HS. So he would have been 20 when he started university. I believe he could have succeeded in college just being two years older at the start. So red shirting at KG and be older at the beginning of academia offending other parents, or older at the point where it really matters and have a better chance of lifetime 
success?[/quote]

It is not offensive to other parents, it is offensive to your child.  Who knows, same thing could have happened either way, in your case, PP.[/quote]

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