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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] The marginal difference from redshirting is tiny.[/quote] That's true when redshirting is rare. When it's not, over time it stilts people's expectations of what is appropriately on grade. Not only is a child in a class with children over a year older (the children red shirted the previous year), a child with a summer birthday who is not retained has few similar age peers. An August birthday child's closest age peer might be a May birthday child, with the other June-July-August birthday children being a year older. There will be few other children in class that have that large of a gap, thus it's more likely for summer birthday children who go on time to be perceived as "behind." Fortunately, as children age, 1/4th of a year gap makes less and less of a difference. For those in the midst of it, I think the concerns (on all sides) make sense.[/quote]
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