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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friendly acquaintance posted a "back to school" pic of her son complete with his age (6.75 years) and grade (Junior First/ Prep First/ whatever your private school calls it).  This little boy has a late fall birthday!!! He is going to be almost 8 years old when he starts first grade.  Meanwhile, my child has a July birthday and I cannot afford private so he will be starting K right after he turns 5 and starting first right after he turns 6.  He and this child are going to be almost 2 full years apart while in the same grade.  I KNOW, it doesn't affect me in the slightest especially since he isn't even at my child's school.  But it makes me so angry!  My child is a little socially immature and I am worried he is not only going to be chronologically the youngest when he starts real school but he is going to be socially young for his age too, making it so much harder for him if his classroom is full of kids who are 7 when he is only 5.  Ugh.  Vent over.  Side note- does anyone know if redshirting is as prevalent in public schools? [/quote]

How is your public K classroom full of 7-year olds?[/quote]

Well I hope it's not, but judging by how many people are telling me "just hold him back" when I've said many times we are using public, apparently it's completely allowed and therefore will be super common???[/quote]

[b]So there is no apparent looming actual issue as you described?  There actually is no classroom full of kids who are 7 with your 5 year old?  This is just some bizarre hypothetical?[/b]  [/quote]

Do you have kids?? It's not a hypothetical!![/quote]

Yes, correct, it's a looming issue for next year not this year.  If that makes a difference.  Eyeroll. [/quote]

Can you post the data on the birth date of each child entering the class in question?  Oh, you don’t actually have that. [/quote]

Right, because I'm talking about the larger culture of redshirting kids (someone posted that their school district in Boston had schools with 20-30% of kids starting a year late- that's crazy).  And worrying about how it will possibly/ likely affect my child next year when he enters K.  I'm allowed to post about generalities and how they might apply to my specific situation in the future.  There is no rule that I need to only post about exact problems I have at this exact moment.  If you don't want to contribute in a helpful way, you can ignore this entire thread- I made it really easy to do so by titling it "another redshirting vent" and if you were eyerolling at that title. ,then SCROLL PAST. [/quote]

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