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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]We're ending up with environments where parents of perfectly average children feel a need to redshirt them if their birthday is within three months of the cut off date, simply so they won't be labeled a bad child or a stupid child when the child is simply a perfectly average child.[/quote] I don't think that is why most people do it. My son has a late August birthday and is very, very bright. He is also tiny physically and immature emotionally. I redshirted him because I was concerned about him making friends and keeping up socially. Even a year behind, he is not exactly a social butterfly, but he does have some friends and basically fits in.[/quote] +1 We had our own reasons, but "didn't want our kid to be the youngest" wasn't on the list AT ALL. That is also true for all of the other families we know who have let their child wait a year to start K. Each had their own reasons, but not this. [/quote]
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