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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes redshirting makes a lot of sense for the situation. My son with an November birthday was not redshirted, he is the second oldest in class, tall for his age, doing great academically.

My mom was a teacher and she redshirted me and my twin with May birthdays but early birth at 7 months, and with low birth weight etc. Even so, we were the smallest kids in a class of 30. Academically we excelled, but I suspect mostly because our parents put a lot of effort into our education. Likely it also helped that we were more mature mentally than our classmates.
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Were you and your twin proud of yourselves for outperforming kids 8-to-19 months younger than you? [/quote]

Yes, we were proud. Different country, but we were very good at math, the best in what would be a small sized US state. Nobody cares about your age when you go to a math competition, and there were certain math prodigies that were good even at very early ages. What all had in common was strong parental involvement, which I think is the determining factor in student success, less so the 6-12 months difference in chronological age. Holding a student that is ready for one more year won’t help, in some cases it may even be detrimental. If the student is not ready developmentally it can make a positive difference.

As I said, it is dependent on the child, as a parent you’ll know best. It worked well for us, I ended up getting a PhD from MIT, my twin is on Wall Street making over half a million a year. My mother was right, and she had plenty of experience teaching thousands of elementary school students over her entire career.[/quote]

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