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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Why should only the youngest in the year group get to choose the age of their peer group?

[b]What if a the parents of a January born kid in a district with an August cut off decides that they want them to be the very oldest in the room and decide to redshirt[/b].

Let’s let everyone have the right to choose and not a select few.[/quote]
They could do that already. You just need to have your kid in school by the compulsory age of attendance. [/quote]

What? If a kids starts schools before the compulsory age of attendance (5) then they would be on the  younger side, not the oldest. [b]What I am saying is that you can’t currently start many kid at 6 when they will turn 7 within the school year. [/b]Only redshirters begin school at 6. [/quote]
Link? My daughter is in middle school and we've known a handful of kids with [b]spring birthdays who turned 7 [/b]at the end of K, 12 at the end of 5th, etc.
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They where redshirted!  My point that kids with Fall and Winter birthdays don’t have the same option, they have start school on the September ( or whatever the district policy is) they are 5. They can’t be 6 going on 7 like your spring born redshirted example.[/quote]

They have the option to green shirt in some cases. Late summer birthdays don't get that option. So, different options are available depending on your birthday. I have a current kindergartener turning 6 early November, I didn't want to start him early or late, he's already in the older 1/3 of the class. That's good enough for me and the vast majority of other parents who don't green shirt or whatever you would call holding back a kid whose birthday is just past the cutoff to start school.[/quote]

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