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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watch the video from the 16 minute mark. That’s exactly what he says. [/quote]
"If you look at how well kids do in school, based purely on their birthdates, whether they fall into the younger, oldest, or middle age cohort in their class, you see exactly the same patterns. In fact, there's a beautiful study done that tracked thousands and thousands of kids across the west and tracked them all the way through university level and found that kids born in the relatively youngest cohort of their age class were 11% less likely to go to college than kids who were in the relatively oldest cohort of their age class."

But what does this have to do with redshirting? There will ALWAYS be kids who are older in a grade and those who are younger, even if redshirting is completely illegal. That's the way our education system is set up. Unless we make it legal to only have sex in a certain month so all kids in the country are born within a few weeks span, not sure what point you're trying to make. Or unless you want to radically restructure how school works. But again, what does that have to do with redshirting?[/quote]
Right. My kid has a fall birthday. He was NOT redshirted. He HAD to start school at a just-turned-6 rather than a just-turned-5. He'll always be one of the older ones in the cohort because *gasp* his parents chose to have sex *checks notes* around Christmastime :mrgreen:  :mrgreen: it has nothing to do with redshirting. Not sure what PP is trying to say. [/quote]

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