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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do consider it gaming the system.  Parents redshirt their children to give them an advantage.  It also rewards school systems for having unrealistic expectations, reinforcing the cycle of redshirting and inappropriate expectations.

Also, from my DS's experience (September birthday sent on time) and [b]his cousin's experience (September birthday redshirted)[/b], in the first couple years, the children either get a false sense of poor behavior or a false sense of mastery.  Neither are ideal, but in older elementary school, [b]DS's cousin is really struggling with not finding school easy anymore[/b].[/quote]

This would be my fear with my Sept. bday child--that if everything is easy because she's so much older, that she won't get practice with challenging herself.[/quote]

Many or maybe most kindergarten students from affluent families find school very easy and are not challenged, whether or not they were held back.

Come back and talk to me when they are in middle and high school.  [quote]A young-for-his-grade boy is highly likely to struggle,[/quote] which creates a host of other issues in addition to the academic ones.[/quote]

It's interesting how you said the bold instead "A young-for-their-grade child is likely to struggle". In other words, September-born girls are fine starting on time, but September-born boys aren't. You seem to be saying that girls are smarter than boys, which now that I think about it, makes perfect sense. I can't think of a single male as smart as Alberta Einstein, Isabel Newton, Amadea Mozart, Charlotte Darwin, Stephanie Hawking, Marcia Zuckerberg, or Bilia Gates.[/quote]

NP, Little boys have more trouble sitting still and paying attention to their teacher than little girls in early elementary, on average, it is not an issue of intelligence.  As a mom of a boy and a girl, I think pp is entirely correct.[/quote]

Some little boys and girls have trouble sitting.  Not all do.  That is a huge stretch.[/quote]

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