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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a "Greenshirted" kid who is a Junior in HS right now. His birthday is late September and the cut-off was Sept 1. He had to take a test to qualify for early entrance to kindergarten.

Here are the reasons we greenshirted -
- he is very bright and was ahead in all academic markers (could read from 3 yrs of age)
- he was average height and weight, healthy and active.
- he was very well socialized, very articulate, independent, mature and is NT
- keeping him back would have been a disservice to him. - he is the youngest of the siblings and so he was really at par with his elder siblings.
- it made no sense to pay for another year of private school before he could go to public school ES.

He excelled in the classroom and playground. He soon leapfrogged to a more advanced track and program in public school and has really thrived.

Detrimental in some ways?
- a lot of prestigious opportunities and internships in HS have a strict age-limit and he is always younger by a couple months.

Not really impactful for a kid who is a focussed student and  not a wild party animal. YMMV. -
- his driver's license came a few months later than most of his peers 
- he will probably be a few months younger than his peers before he can have his first legal beer.

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My DS sounds like yours, but was born Oct 1, so missed our district cut off by one day, and though he was very advanced, they would not allow green shirting where we live. So he turned six a month into K and is also a junior and will turn 18 a month into senior year.  It has also been fine, there have always been kids at his level in the advanced tracks. I actually do not think there have been red shirted kids in his class and any of the schools.[/quote]

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