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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know some people refuse to believe it, but the older kids end up doing better in school. It's not surprising that people who can swing redshirting do it.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/18/544483397/oldest-kids-in-class-do-better-even-through-college

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Why has the subject of pressure not come up once in regards to this? What you say is true. Since older kids usually do better, this means that if a kid is redshirted, they'll be expected to excel. So if, for some weird reason, an older kid does worse, it'll be a lot more embarrassing for them than had they been on the young end. It's always embarrassing to perform poorly, but it's still much less embarrassing to perform poorly when you were expected to excel than it is to perform poorly when you were expected to perform poorly. Conversely, it's much more impressive to excel when you were expected to perform poorly than it is to excel when you were expected to excel. I just think parents should consider how much pressure their kid would be under if they redshirted. There's no room to exceed expectations in school when you're the oldest.[/quote]

I remember all the times job interviewers asked when my birthday was so they could determine if my success was due to my young age and then reward me accordingly. Oh wait, that never happened. How is it that nobody is impressed by my success because I was one of the younger kids to graduate from my class? How do people impress people when their birthday and age are unknown? Besides ones own parents, who are the kids trying  to impress? I have the same expectations of all my kids regardless of their birthdays.[/quote]

It's not about impressing employers or colleges. [b]It's about being able to find comfort within yourself in knowing that your failures are not to you being stupid. You may not be able to impress anyone, but you can still yourself, "I'm not stupid, just younger." An older kid who did poorly can't tell themselves that and will have to live with the knowledge that they may really be stupid.[/b] [/quote]

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