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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not only August babies who are redshirted in the US. It’s more like March - August borns. I think a February born example was given here early.

So if that peer reviewed paper is correct. Spring born redshirting isn’t about appropriately correcting  a systematic  potential disadvantage to them but going beyond that and increasing that systematic disadvantage on those redshirters youngest classmates.[/quote]

August/September babies were used as the highest differential test case since in UK the placement rules are generally followed so between those two cohorts there is the largest effect grade vs. chronological age.

Most studies point to redshirting benefitting children that are not developmentally ready for grade level instruction. I believe there is evidence for this.
From here you extrapolate that redshirting gives an advantage to [b]any[/b] child that would be held back, and the [b]more[/b] redshirting (earlier months, ie Feb birth, or even redshirting for two years) results in a greater advantage. This is not true in my view.

First point that not every child benefits from redshirting. There’s a big difference between holding back boys vs girls. If the same families wanted to just give an advantage to their children you’d expect the rates to be the same but they are 5x higher for boys, which tend to also develop slower, and to perform academically at lower levels.

More redshirting is better. If that were true you’d expect stronger academic performance with more redshirting, but in fact that advantage disappears by the end of elementary school. By your argument, redshirting for 3-4 years would guarantee the child is an academic superstar, that’s just not the case.

You really seem to want your theory to be true, and simply overlook a lot of hard data that contradicts your belief. You are free to do as you please, however given that you present debatable interpretations as absolute truths, you should avoid giving educational advice or criticizing other families educational choices.
Understand that you are presenting only a personal opinion that is mostly contradicted by educational research.
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