This research is also correlational meaning we do not know whether it is redshirting that causes these advantages or if redshirting is simply associated with advantages. However, this effect may begin to fade as early as the end of first grade. Research on redshirting suggests that it is associated with a small academic advantage (that is, higher academic test scores) and test scores seem to increase at a greater rate in 1st and 2nd grade (suggesting that redshirted children are showing enhanced learning in these grades). So does research actually find that redshirting will provide an academic and/or social advantage for children? The answer may be more complicated than you think. It seemed that everyone I talked to had wholeheartedly accepted that delaying kindergarten was undeniably the “best” choice for all children. Yet, in talking to school administrators, teachers, and other parents about this decision, the message I heard over and over again was that the choice was obvious. Granted, she would have entered kindergarten in 2020 and the possibility of remote learning caused many parents to delay school entry that year. However, it seemed like all of the children with summer birthdays (and even April/May birthdays) were waiting an additional year to start kindergarten. My oldest child has a late August birthday which is right around the cutoff date for her school. For parents of children born near the cutoff date, the pressure to delay kindergarten feels intense.
At the same time, kindergarten seems to be becoming increasingly academic and rigorous.
Since this book was published, it seems that children are waiting longer and longer to start kindergarten every year. Gladwell argues that this principle extends to children who are older than their classmates having an academic advantage as well.
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Because the cutoff for most sports in Canada is January 1st, children born in the first four months of the year are older than the other children on the team thus making them more likely to be identified as talented and ultimately more likely to play professional hockey. He points to data showing that nearly all players for the Canadian Hockey League have birthdays in the first four months of the year. In this book, Gladwell claims that a child being relatively older than their peers provides an advantage. The growing popularity of redshirting may have been started by Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book Outliers, which was published in 2008. “Redshirting” or choosing to delay school entry for a year seems to be an increasingly popular trend for giving your child a competitive advantage.
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