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I red-shirted my daughter. She has a very late August birthday, and our school cut-off is Sept 1. They asked if I would prefer her to be oldest or youngest. After much thinking, we chose for her to be one of the oldest in her class and have not regretted it for one second.

My two friends who didn't redshirt held their boys back and did kindergarten twice. It wasn't an academic issue--it was a sports one. It's hard to compete with kids who are 18 months older than you. Our reasoning came down to: if everything can be 20% easier for our kid for the next 13 years, why not? Of course, this means she will be 10 in fourth grade and 15 as a freshman, which is weird for me. But if Taylor Swift wrote "Fifteen" about a freshman girl, then it has to be pretty common...