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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Link with the summary of a study that shows redshirting benefits:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220671.2014.979909

There are significant advantages but they disappear by the end of elementary school. I would hardly call them massive.[/quote]

I disagree. The advantage of being the oldest at the beginning sets off a chain reaction that lasts not only through middle and high school, but through college as well. I, for one, don't know anyone who was redshirted who dropped out of college even though many students drop out of college every year. I also don't know one redshirted kid who took longer than 4 years to graduate from college. [/quote]

The evidence you bring is anecdotal, only a handful of cases, and you don’t control for other variables, like in those scientific studies. Please post a reference on Cambridge/Oxford attendance, I’d like to read it.[/quote]

DA but

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/nov/01/august-babies-top-universities-study

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21579484

https://ifs.org.uk/docs/born_matters_report.pdf
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I would not put much stock in the guardian or bbc articles, they are sensationalist click bait papers. The last one you show us not a peer reviewed paper so some of the claims may not have a strong data backing.

I looked for a peer reviewed version of their work here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4282424/#!po=0.602410

Read on your own if you have the time, but what I get is that in UK August children perform worse than September born ones, but the effects are small and fade over time. They even cute a study that this effect is not observed in US, likely because of red shirting. So the redshirting takes out of the pool of August babies the ones that are less prepared and then there’s not much of a difference with September ones.

To me the conclusion still stays, redshirting provides small advantage that decrease in time, and it is beneficial only to a small subset of children.[/quote]

Any child with involved parents and a good preschool should be prepared.  The problem is many parents don't want to work with their kids on the basics to get them ready and the play based preschools don't do much etierh in terms of prepping for K.      [/quote]

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