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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, it’s not a clear-cut decision to hold a boy back! At most, it should be a clear-cut YES to send a girl on time and maybe slightly less clear for a boy, but only slightly. This is getting ridiculous. The only kids I knew who waited were girl twins that only barely made the cutoff (but wouldn’t have if they’d been born at term) and had mild SN. And a boy with an even earlier birthday that just “didn’t seem ready”— but that mom completely regretted holding him back.[/quote]

That's a huge gender bias.  I know I wouldn't want my child to be a 19 year old senior for the entire year dating 17-18 year old girls.  You don't know what kids will be like later on so its a huge guessing game but most kids will rise to the challenge.[/quote]You have your ages wrong.  An August birthday will only ever be 18 in high school, even if red shirted.  They won't turn 19 until after college has started the next fall.  They will be a 19 yo college freshman. [/quote]

No, I have a September child, not August. If I held him back, he'd start college technically at 18, but turn 19 that September, a few weeks in.  I don't want a 19 year old freshman.  Or, like you said be 18 the entire senior year, which is bad as then they are adults, parents have no rights basically.[/quote]

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