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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where is all this evidence? Everything I have seen says that it’s only good for sports. Every kid has that moment where they start to struggle to do well in school when you actually have to study to get good grades. In the long term red shirting doesn’t help. [/quote]

So why are so many people on here so hot and bothered about other people redshirting and disadvantaging their kids? Something doesn’t add up.[/quote]
I don’t think anybody feels their kids are disadvantaged by others redshirting. I just think it’s a mistake for bright kids especially, but if your child has special needs then it makes sense. I think somehow parents were under the impression that the maturity aspect of it benefits their sons (which it does, temporarily), but it‘s like flunking a grade, it puts them behind their same-age peers. I have sent my kids on-time (and trying to greenshirt my September-birthday youngest), mostly because of academics, though. [/quote]

When you read these threads there is often someone who chimes in saying it so unfair that her kid has to compete with someone 2 years older than hers. Probably the same one in here now who says kids are going off to college at 20, math is not her strong suit. So yes, some people actually think redshirting is unfair to others even though the people against it are so sure the redshirted kids are losers who will fail at life whose parents have no faith in them. Doesn't make a lot of sense. If it doesn't affect you, why be so judgmental of other parents choices?[/quote]
I agree with you, there is no competition. My kids have been in class with redshirted boys and I think it’s fairly obvious to most people who they are. The only reason I say anything on these threads is that I think preschool teachers are misguiding anxious moms and insisting their boys need to stay behind to mature, and this is a terrible thing for bright boys. A bright, curious boy does not need to stay behind with a bunch of kids younger than him. [/quote]

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