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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would NOT hold a May birthday child back unless there are significant cognitive issues at play.  I have a June child who I did not hold back.  She is one of the youngest in her class.  She has always been in the top reading/math groups though.  Plus, socially, there were plenty of other kids with late spring/summer birthdays.  I child with a May birthday will turn 7 in K.  There will be an almost 2 year age difference between your child and a child with a late summer birthday who goes on time.  That's just to big a spread IMHO.[/quote] I’m against redshirting a May birthday kid too but your math is wrong. There will not be an “almost 2 year age difference” between ops potentially redshirted kid and a late summer bday kid who goes on time. In this scenario OP’s kid would turn 6 in May 2020 so born 2014, the youngest kid in the class would turn 5 in August 2020 so would have been born 2015, or at most 15 months younger than OP’s kid.

Anyway, it’s ridiculous to redshirt a May bday. My siblings and I all have late summer and early fall birthdays and all went on time. We grew up in Tennessee too coincidentally.[/quote]

If we go on time our May 30 son will be younger by 16 months Feb boys who redshirt. It is a significant gap at that age. It's more than 20% his age. For kids in August who go on time, it's a 19 month gap....[/quote]

No one w a feb bday kid should be redshirting. That’s crazy.[/quote]

Ok, feb to May is 3 months not 4, feb to August is 6 months not 7. You  are exaggerating the potential age gaps. Yes, 15 or 18 months difference is still very big. But realistically how many kids w February bdays will be redshirted? My guess is very few if any.[/quote]

OP just said she knows a bunch of february birthdays redshirting.  Those parents are neglectful and disgusting.  They are going to have 20 year old GROWN men in high school.  It's so gross.  [/quote]

Again, the February redshirted kid would turn 19 in high school not 20. It’s not a 2 year age difference we’re talking about here in most cases (though there could be some late summer bday started on time kids who graduate high school at 17 and don’t turn 18 til college whereas the potential February redshirted kid would have turned 19 while still in high school. Again, it’s a 12-18 month age difference not 2 full years.

Still, it should not be allowed to hold back any kid born in February-May unless there’s a very good reason for it (medical issues, learning issues, etc)

I highly doubt OP actually knows “a bunch” of kids w February birthdays who’ll be redshirted. She exaggerated everything else so I don’t believe that.[/quote]

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