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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Intelligence tests are normed by age, down the the month, so a held back/redshirted kid could still legitimately test as gifted. But yes they do tend to be over-identified.

Here is an anecdote for all the people who insist that redshirting is not perceived by children as being held back and that redhirted kids never ever get made fun of for being held back. At some event I overheard a group of about half a dozen kids in the 5th grade who went to different schools discussing who among them was the oldest. When an early summer redshirted girl aas determined to be the oldest, another laughed at her and said "you got held back!"

Folks, kids KNOW.[/quote]

Only you know you nut [/quote]

Nope, kids definitely notice the old kids in the grade. [/quote]

And? The kids don’t care who is the oldest or youngest. Their deranged parents care.[/quote]

Kids who are too old for the grade often get made fun of unless they are the top of the class academically. It's a gamble to hold your kid back from starting kindergarten on time. You're betting on that extra year to make them appear smarter, but if the kid is average or worse, then you've created a new problem. Kids will make fun of the slow kids regardless of age, but the held back slow kids get it worse. I remember well my DD's elem had some really vicious young-for-the-grade bullies who picked on a redshirted girl who was behind in reading. You're doing a disservice to your kid if you don't factor that in your decision to delay kindergarten. I've seen the "social reasons" backfire enough times to make me very skeptical of the redshirting benefits

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Sorry your daughter went to such a backwards school but I haven’t seen this at all in any of my kid’s classrooms. This is not a general experience. [/quote]

Don’t worry. This does not happen in real life. What the PP wrote is a common fever fantasy of the anti-redshirt posters on DCUM, most of whom I do not think can carry on a normal human conversation with anyone. [/quote]

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