LSLGuy
October 16, 2024, 12:50pm
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Here are three older threads on what amounts to the same conversation: whether & how much advantage there is to being relatively older or younger within your school class at various ages:
Hi fellow Dopers.
So I came across this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/magazine/03kindergarten-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&
That seems to advocate holding kids back a year before they start kindergarten. My son is almost 2.5 years old. He will be three right smack in the middle of April. In Illinois, you need to be five before you can start kindergarten so little Lochdale would be 5 plus a few months when he would be eligible to start kindergarten. If we were to wait a year the…
2015:
So this has been asked before, that is, the pros and cons of Red Shirting a child so that they start Kindergarten a year later then they otherwise could start.
Seeing how kids are starting school again I thought I would ask again for Dopers opinions and experiences with Red Shirting.
By way of background, my son is 4 (born late April, 2011). He is fairly speech delayed and has been in speech therapy now for two years. So he is going into five day pre-K in two weeks. My thoughts are that we …
2016 ref the high school-to-college transition:
So I’ve noticed that a lot of parents said there sole reason for redshirting their fall child was that they didn’t want them to go to college at 17. But if that’s the only reason, why not have them take a gap year instead? I understand there are other reasons for redshirting, but to do it solely because you don’t want your kid starting college at 17 is just silly. It’s 13 years away. And besides, how do you even know they’ll want to go college? Most people don’t these days. You should make a dec…