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Originally Posted by taco.vidal
I thought CP loves scientific evidence or at least academic research rather than anecdotal stories.
The teachers opinion isnt suprising.
The research shows that there is little or no advantage to academic redshirting for the kids. If you can find something new research that shows otherwise Id appreciate seeing it.
The research does show the older kids have an athletic advantage. Thats not surprising as you can even see kids that get growth spurts first will do better at sports.
Some research also shows that the redshirted kid will earn less over their lifetime because of losing a year of their working years.
If youre in a school where more parents are doing this, then it can make youre choice harder as not doing could make your could one of very few young kids in that grade. From what I recall, the research said that wealthy families were more likely to hold their kids back the kids were special snow flakes and the parents could afford the extra year of child care before K.
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Ya i've looked all over the internet and i think i came across that too. Academically eventually it doesn't make much difference. Then again i saw a study that countered that study. However every other site and paper i looked at is negative towards being the youngest in the class.
There's studies that show it can take kids till their late 20's to get over being emotionally behind for so many years. Compare your childs scissor use and drawing to a kid that's a year older. You'll see there's a difference.
If it helps, i've talked to about ten teachers and all of them say holding back is better. Unless you're a teacher?
In Finland their kids start at the age of 7 and apparently children are academically ahead compared to other countries in the same age group.