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[b]Red shirting not allowed then, for good reason.  
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I was 17 upon graduation.  Would NOT have it any other way.  Was able to get B.S., grad school, law school and doctorate out of the way before starting "life" while still young!

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I don't know if it was not allowed, but in my area it was very common for kids to "fail" K and have to repeat.  It was mostly because the teachers didn't think they were ready or mature enough.

I posted earlier about being 4 when starting K and had a hard time.  By 1st grade and up there were always some kids that were K repeaters, usually boys.  This became most obvious in middle school.  I prefer the parent's choice to redshirt.  I had a couple of friends that failed K, they never had the motivational drive to succeed in school as it was set in them pretty early that they weren't "smart" enough.  They really just needed an extra year to mature.

So maybe redshirting wasn't as common, but repeating K was and this was almost always because of the teacher not the parent.

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