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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.

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In UK, kids aren't either held back or accelerated, but kids born between September and November(cut-off is August 31st in the UK) and far more likely to go to Oxford/Cambridge than kids born between June and August. Also, in American families, kids who are old for their grade do better than any siblings they might have who are young for their grade.[/quote]

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