Roo: Redshirting

[woodwardiocom]

Not that many years from now, Roo will be entering kindergarten. Where we live, the cutoff date for determining age eligibility is September 1st. Roo's birthday is August 24th, so if we send her off to k.g. as soon as she's eligible, she's likely to be the youngest in her class.

I've been reading up on redshirting (choosing to postpone entrance to kindergarten), and the data seems to be mixed. Certainly, we don't know how mature Roo will be in four years. (Currently she seems to be very smart, reasonably socially ept, and a skoosh below the average in height-n-weight.) Do any of my many friends with backgrounds in education have opinions?

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[archangelbeth]

That is good! Mostly just a warning - our kid was pretty atypical & her overall smarts also masked some symptoms, so... That's a risk of being young-for-one's grade, that signs won't be properly attributed.