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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been a million threads on this already. I am not redshirting my late June girl, she'll just be a year and a half younger than some of her classmates with crazy parents.[/quote]

+1.  I don’t relate to the majority of people in this thread.  We’re not redshirting my August boy.  He’s doing private K which is virtual now but will probably be hybrid soon.  I guess we have IQ to spare and are not trying to raise a pro athlete!  A bored child is not good thing.  Why are parents so allergic to challenging their kids?[/quote]

Because its easier on them and the teachers.  They don't have to provide any support or guidance and let kids figure it out on their own.  Plus they want bragging rights to being in gifted programs when they really aren't gifted or should be there or sports.[/quote]

I think you’re right.  I was young for my grade and yes I was bummed when my friends got their drivers licenses before me and all that but I’d rather be racing to keep up and learning I dunno some grit than just breezing along under the delusion that I’m superior.  Looking back, I had a classmate who was the oldest in the grade — not redshirted, but I went to school in the days where it the grade was the calendar year and his was January — he seemed SOOOO smart at the time, had also read more books than me, etc.  Now I look back and realize oh duh, he was like a year older!  He totally burned out after high school, in a pretty tragic way in fact.  I remember racing to keep up with him in school, but I think ultimately it served me well.  I’m far more successful than him.  Obviously an anecdote, of course, so I guess the takeaway is YMMV.[/quote]

I don't want my child the first to get a license as I don't want them having the pressure to drive their friends.  My child keeps up just fine and is in the higher level classes.  A year back my child would have been really bored.  We talked about switching schools to private and many pressured us to hold back on age/not grades and child was against it.[/quote]

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