Late birthday + held back a year, or a rare, true form of red shirting.

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Anonymous wrote:DD is 15 going into her junior year in HS. Wft.

Same. She turns 16 at the beginning of the school year.

In modern day MD, these kids are “early entry”. Of course they exist, but exceptions were made, not the “norm” by cutoff dates.

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Anonymous wrote:Many people will stop redshirting if and when K becomes developmentally appropriate for active 4yo boys.

Like I already, you can count on two hands the number of kids redshirted across the country each year year. So there's not really room for "many people" to stop redshirting.

This makes no sense, how do you define redshirting? With a MD 9/1 cutoff, in my mind not redshirting means all the 5 year olds go to school. But I personally know at least one handful of MOCO late spring/summer birthday kids who waited until they were 6 to start. So there’s just no way with this definition what you say is true.

Anonymous wrote:Many people will stop redshirting if and when K becomes developmentally appropriate for active 4yo boys.

Like I already, you can count on two hands the number of kids redshirted across the country each year year. So there's not really room for "many people" to stop redshirting.

Many people will stop redshirting if and when K becomes developmentally appropriate for active 4yo boys.

Anonymous wrote:DD is 15 going into her junior year in HS. Wft.

Same. She turns 16 at the beginning of the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. Most 8th graders will turn 14 at some point during the year, and many will be almost 15 at the end of the school year. So it's not that big a difference. 14.5 is probably the norm.

My child turns 13 during 8th grade so that’s a two year age difference. It’s a big difference.

Your child was 12 in 8th grade? That is not the norm at all! Most are 13 and turn 14 that year. My 14.5 year old just finished 8th and my 12 year old is now going into 7th. And we sent them on time. Your math seems off!

Your math is off, my child was 13 the entire 8th grade year.

All the birthdays my child attended in 8th grade were for kids turning 14. Nobody was 12, turning 13.

My child started kinder at 5 and was 5 the entire time, that made DC 13 the entire 8th grade year. I suppose your child was below average as was classmates.

So your child wasn’t 12, they were 13. My child was 13 and turned 14 in 8th grade, like almost all their classmates.

Being any age other than 13 in 8th grade is pretty rare.

what? I'm in Maryland, where the cutoff is September 1st. Even if there was no redshirting, every kid -- except for the summer birthdays, who'd turn 14 the summer afterwards--turns 14 during 8th grade.

I turned 15 in the first week of October of 9th grade. All my classmates were between 9 months younger than me and 11 months younger than me. So no, I would say this is very abnormal.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. Most 8th graders will turn 14 at some point during the year, and many will be almost 15 at the end of the school year. So it's not that big a difference. 14.5 is probably the norm.

My child turns 13 during 8th grade so that’s a two year age difference. It’s a big difference.

Your child was 12 in 8th grade? That is not the norm at all! Most are 13 and turn 14 that year. My 14.5 year old just finished 8th and my 12 year old is now going into 7th. And we sent them on time. Your math seems off!

Your math is off, my child was 13 the entire 8th grade year.

All the birthdays my child attended in 8th grade were for kids turning 14. Nobody was 12, turning 13.

My child started kinder at 5 and was 5 the entire time, that made DC 13 the entire 8th grade year. I suppose your child was below average as was classmates.

So your child wasn’t 12, they were 13. My child was 13 and turned 14 in 8th grade, like almost all their classmates.

Being any age other than 13 in 8th grade is pretty rare.

Every kid with a birthday from October to June will turn 14.

Not rare at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. Most 8th graders will turn 14 at some point during the year, and many will be almost 15 at the end of the school year. So it's not that big a difference. 14.5 is probably the norm.

My child turns 13 during 8th grade so that’s a two year age difference. It’s a big difference.

Your child was 12 in 8th grade? That is not the norm at all! Most are 13 and turn 14 that year. My 14.5 year old just finished 8th and my 12 year old is now going into 7th. And we sent them on time. Your math seems off!

Your math is off, my child was 13 the entire 8th grade year.

All the birthdays my child attended in 8th grade were for kids turning 14. Nobody was 12, turning 13.

My child started kinder at 5 and was 5 the entire time, that made DC 13 the entire 8th grade year. I suppose your child was below average as was classmates.

So your child wasn’t 12, they were 13. My child was 13 and turned 14 in 8th grade, like almost all their classmates.

Being any age other than 13 in 8th grade is pretty rare.

My oldest has a late May birthday. He turned 14 at the very end of 8th grade. Plenty of his classmates turned 14 before him. He’s one of the younger kids for his grade, with no redshirting involved.
His sister has a late September birthday. School has a 5 by Sept 1 cutoff for K. She will turn 14 at the beginning of her 8th grade year. She’s not the oldest in her small ES, there’s a handful of kids with earlier September birthdays.
It is not unusual at all to be 14 in 8th grade.

Anonymous wrote:DD is 15 going into her junior year in HS. Wft.

And everyone in her class with a birthday after October is 16 turning 17.

With Sept 30 cutoff and no redshirting there are kids in these age ranges:

8th: 12-14
9th: 13-15
10th: 14-16
11th: 15-17
12th: 16-18

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Anonymous wrote:Spring birthday 2008, likely March-April and held back one year.

1/2 year older than fall birthday 2008 kids who are among the oldest in the grade. and 1.5 years older than fall 2009 kids who are the youngest. Not a big deal in life but big difference at this age in particular due to adolescence. Child is probably winning all kinds of competitions due to boosted age.

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I bet this kid's parents are simply bursting with pride over the fact that their child is outperforming kids over a year younger than them.

Not you again

DD is 15 going into her junior year in HS. Wft.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal. Most 8th graders will turn 14 at some point during the year, and many will be almost 15 at the end of the school year. So it's not that big a difference. 14.5 is probably the norm.

My child turns 13 during 8th grade so that’s a two year age difference. It’s a big difference.

Your child was 12 in 8th grade? That is not the norm at all! Most are 13 and turn 14 that year. My 14.5 year old just finished 8th and my 12 year old is now going into 7th. And we sent them on time. Your math seems off!

Your math is off, my child was 13 the entire 8th grade year.

All the birthdays my child attended in 8th grade were for kids turning 14. Nobody was 12, turning 13.

My child started kinder at 5 and was 5 the entire time, that made DC 13 the entire 8th grade year. I suppose your child was below average as was classmates.

So your child wasn’t 12, they were 13. My child was 13 and turned 14 in 8th grade, like almost all their classmates.

Being any age other than 13 in 8th grade is pretty rare.

Every kid with a birthday from October to June will turn 14.

Not rare at all.