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[quote=Anonymous]There is some evidence that older children generally do better in academic tests, and that benefit extends to redshirted kids, although that correlation is not that strong.

Often people see a few redshirted kids that are doing really well and assume that their success is due to redshirting. In fact it may be that other factors are at play, parents that redshirt tend to be more educated, and are more wealthy, both correlating with academic performance. Also, just the act of redshirting means the parent is concerned enough about how the student will do in school that they will take preventive action to address real or perceived disadvantage. Likely that parent will be involved, provide resources and emphasize the child academics so not that surprisingly the student will do well in school along with others kids that have a similar family background but were not redshirted.

Another argument for redshirting is that if the child enters kindergarten and struggles, they will keep struggling for the rest of the time they are in school and will have a difficult time recovering. I think this is legitimate, it also helps if the child develops a self image of being good (sports or academics) because with this mindset they’ll try harder than the student assuming they are just not very good at it.

I’d rather wait one more year for my kid to do well easily and be in top student that will carry over a few years, than send him in early and be at the bottom or middle of the pack. Kindergarten is fairly easy and most students do well regardless. If this is the case, I don’t see a reason to redshirt and it may even be a disservice to the kid.[/quote]

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