"red shirting" your kindergartener has a lot of potential downside.

Any child should start school when they are intectually ready
"sometimes he gets bored at school" - could have a lot of downside - underachieving etc...

Economically, this is a bad play too. Since the odds of earning any money for athletics including scholarship and/or going pro are very low. This potential does not equate well with the loss of income that comes with joining the workforce a year later


Originally Posted by Anonymous
My son was born on Nov 30th missing the cutoff by one day. Thank God I listened to his pre school and held him back, for one stinkin day to always be the youngest would have sucked. Sometimes he gets bored at school but developmentally it has given him an advantage in everything , really zero upside to not holding him back