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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, where I live (Toronto), people brag when their kids are the youngest in the class. My sister brags nonstop that her daughter was still 17 when she started university.

There is no redshirting here. Everyone born in the calendar year starts at the same time. Cut off is December 31. I know people who get induced to have a baby that can start school sooner.

You Americans are nuts.[/quote]

You are correct that redshirting isn't common in Canada. Yet one of the biggest, most statistically sound studies linking diagnosis of ADHD with relative age of the child in the classrooms came out of Canada: [url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3328520/]Influence of relative age on diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children[/url], CMAJ. 2012 Apr 17:

[quote]Boys who were born in December were 30% more likely (relative risk [RR] 1.30, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.23–1.37) to receive a diagnosis of ADHD than boys born in January. Girls born in December were 70% more likely (RR 1.70, 95% CI 1.53–1.88) to receive a diagnosis of ADHD than girls born in January. Similarly, boys were 41% more likely (RR 1.41, 95% CI 1.33–1.50) and girls 77% more likely (RR 1.77, 95% CI 1.57–2.00) to be given a prescription for a medication to treat ADHD if they were born in December than if they were born in January.[/quote]

OP is obviously nuts and likely a troll but that doesn't mean Canada has figured out how to group kids best. Unless, of course, you're totally okay with misdiagnosis of ADHD for younger children. I've come to the conclusion that some of the anti-redshirt people here are DCUM are fine with that, but YMMV.[/quote]

No.

Redshirting makes it so much harder for age appopriate kindergartners (5 year olds) because holding them to the behavior standards and attention ability of older six and seven year olds makes normal, age appropriate, grade appropriate five year old behavior seem like a problem.

Red shirting hurts these kids the most.[/quote]

This study comes out of Canada, where there isn't a lot of redshirting -- not redshirting did [i]not[/i] help these children.

The reality is that all the options suck because of how kids are grouped in classrooms. I can't blame a parent for looking at his or her own child and deciding that the risk of an unfounded ADHD diagnosis outweighs some of the other risks that come with redshirting (and there are some). I don't know anybody who redshirted for sports, but I do know people who had four-year-olds who were worried about ADHD diagnosis and years later have no regrets about redshirting (and in some cases, likely avoiding mis-diagnosis of ADHD).

But I think a lot of anti-redshirt people don't really care about ADHD mis-diagnosis issues. They are basically willing to say, oh, it's fine to break a few eggs so long as the omelet gets made exactly the way they want it, rather than facing the fact that there are real problems with how we age group children in classrooms.[/quote]

I'm an "anti-redshirter" because of this study. I have a socially immature 4.5 year old who will be starting K this fall. Being happy about OP redshirting her mature/advanced 5 year old is silly.

While Canada, that does not redshirt, has found that the youngest children are most likely to be diagnosed ADHD, it seems clear to me that redshirting would exacerbate that rather than ameliorate it, as you seem to say.[/quote]

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