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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a "Greenshirted" kid who is a Junior in HS right now. His birthday is late September and the cut-off was Sept 1. He had to take a test to qualify for early entrance to kindergarten.

Here are the reasons we greenshirted -
- he is very bright and was ahead in all academic markers (could read from 3 yrs of age)
- he was average height and weight, healthy and active.
- he was very well socialized, very articulate, independent, mature and is NT
- keeping him back would have been a disservice to him. - he is the youngest of the siblings and so he was really at par with his elder siblings.
- it made no sense to pay for another year of private school before he could go to public school ES.

He excelled in the classroom and playground. He soon leapfrogged to a more advanced track and program in public school and has really thrived.

Detrimental in some ways?
- a lot of prestigious opportunities and internships in HS have a strict age-limit and he is always younger by a couple months.

Not really impactful for a kid who is a focussed student and  not a wild party animal. YMMV. -
- his driver's license came a few months later than most of his peers 
- he will probably be a few months younger than his peers before he can have his first legal beer.

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That is really cool. I always liked being the youngest in my class and it would have been such a confidence boost to have been even younger. (Not that’s why you should green shirt but it would be nice still)[/quote]
Can't imagine starting college at 20 would be a good feeling.[/quote]

I don't even understand how that would be possible. A kid not born in the fall would have to both be redshirted AND take a gap year between high school and college. The probabilities of doing either of those things are incredibly low. Multiple those probabilities together, and I think we can all agree that starting college at 20 pretty much never happens.[/quote]

We had lots of kids come to college at 20 and 21.  Some went into the military for three years so that the GI bill would pay for it.  Others worked and saved up for school. Some took gap years and traveled abroad.  This is also very European where it is crazy to think that someone could not imagine someone between the age of 17 to 100 going off to college.  The ignorance on this boards is amazing.[/quote]

I taught at Universities for 10 years. I had plenty of good to great students who were fresh out of high school. I did notice that the students who tended to have the best attendance and were prepared were older students, many in their early 20's. I think it was because they had some experience working other types of jobs and understood why they wanted a college degree and took the process of school more seriously then many of the students who came straight from high school. Many of my early 20's students were serving in the military or had served. I also had some adults in their 40's who were changing positions or finishing a degree for various reasons. that group tended to behave academically more like the kids straight out of high school. Some of them took school very seriously and others were there for the degree with as little work as possible.

I went to college as a 17 year old and had no issues with school. I ended up going straight from college to a PhD program and earned my doctorate. I don't think starting as a younger Kindergartener was an issue for me. [/quote]

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