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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would NOT hold a May birthday child back unless there are significant cognitive issues at play.  I have a June child who I did not hold back.  She is one of the youngest in her class.  She has always been in the top reading/math groups though.  Plus, socially, there were plenty of other kids with late spring/summer birthdays.  I child with a May birthday will turn 7 in K.  There will be an almost 2 year age difference between your child and a child with a late summer birthday who goes on time.  That's just to big a spread IMHO.[/quote] I’m against redshirting a May birthday kid too but your math is wrong. There will not be an “almost 2 year age difference” between ops potentially redshirted kid and a late summer bday kid who goes on time. In this scenario OP’s kid would turn 6 in May 2020 so born 2014, the youngest kid in the class would turn 5 in August 2020 so would have been born 2015, or at most 15 months younger than OP’s kid.

Anyway, it’s ridiculous to redshirt a May bday. My siblings and I all have late summer and early fall birthdays and all went on time. We grew up in Tennessee too coincidentally.[/quote]

If we go on time our May 30 son will be younger by 16 months Feb boys who redshirt. It is a significant gap at that age. It's more than 20% his age. For kids in August who go on time, it's a 19 month gap....[/quote]

No one w a feb bday kid should be redshirting. That’s crazy.[/quote]

Completely.  Where I live, the cutoff is end of the calendar year.  Feb kids are among the oldest.  My DC has a fall birthday.  A February redshirted kid would turn 7 in K.  That kid would be in K older than my child was when she started 2ND GRADE.  [/quote]

Seriously.  My 7yo will start 3rd grade this fall before turning 8.  It's like these people don't believe in their kids and need to engineer everything so that their kid is the best/biggest/smartest/fastest/strongest.[/quote]

Kids can still thrive and be the youngest.  They just learn they have to work a bit harder.  But, holding you kid back doesn't make them smarter, it makes them older so in the early years it makes it look like they are smarter and things come easier when i may not.  If there are other issues, you are failing your kid by holding them back and not getting them in school/help.  Mine is the youngest.  He's fine.  Socially its hard either way.

The calendar year rule makes sense.[/quote]

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