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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s gotta just be the one person on here, right? The one who talks about the shame of being the oldest and… succeeding? The one who talks about following some “rules”?

There are no hard and fast rules on this and I don’t know anyone who thinks about their age vis a vis their school performance! I hope your child doesn’t. I really also hope you don’t tell your child, when they do poorly, oh it’s just because Johnny messed up the curve because he’s so much older than you.

There must be someone, some family, in your life, anti-redshirting lady, who really annoys you. Who is smug about their kid’s success, even though you feel it’s unearned because the kid is older than yours. I’m sorry if the mom of the older kid is smug- that’s on her. You’re right to be irritated by that. But you’re wrong to kneecap your own kid by telling them it isn’t fair when s/he does poorly. And I can kind of tell you do that… Sigh. You have a good kid! It all comes out in the wash! Take a deep breath. Your kid is amazing and good and just celebrate them without twisting yourself into knots about his “competitors “- think of them as “friends “ who happen to do well. [/quote]

Didn’t you read Malcom Gladwells book outiers? It’s proven that the oldest kids in a group are likely to be higher achievers. Most Oxford university students are born in Autumn ( no redshirting allowed in the UK). Most elite youth hockey players in Canada where born in the first 3 months of the year, [b]cut off is the new calendar year. [/b]Redshirting increases that gap.

It’s very rich of parents who redshirted their kids so benefited from the system to gaslight the rest of us who where hurt from being unfairly compared to artificially created older classmates that we are overreacting to the barriers that you erected.  [/quote]

[b]Sports cutoffs aren't like school cutoffs. In Gladwell's book the January born hockey players excelled. January kids aren't the oldest school kids.[/b] I don't recall a section of the book talking about school performance at all, did I miss that part or forget about it?[/quote]

I specifically stated that. Work on your reading comprehension!

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Idiot, this thread is about redshirting for school. Malcolm Gladwell talked about sports and things like practice makes perfect and being at the right place at the right time (Bill Gates). Did you even read the book? It is not a fact that the oldest kids in the class become the most successful just due to their birthday. That's just you and your effed up logic. 
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