Why redshirting for kindergarten is a bad idea:

cobrat
Thu, 30 Mar 2017 04:54:58 +0000

I disagree with @cobrat that a 14 year old can fit in socially in college. At 14, you can’t legally date your 19 year old classmate in any state I’m aware of .

Dating is only one aspect of college life that some parents and the larger public assume far greater importance than it actually does for many undergrads.

And incidentally. I also knew a few 14-16 year old undergrads at my LAC…including a 16 year old junior who had no issues fitting in among the 20-22+ year olds…or balancing part-time work with carrying a maxed out credit load.

I’d hate to think there are parents who would hold students like those younger undergrad classmates who were very advanced academically back solely for the sake of forcing their conformity to attending schooling with same-aged peers.

From knowing those undergrads, they’d be abjectly miserable as an advanced undergrad ready to tackle graduate level work being forced by dunderheaded notions of “appropriate development” to be placed in early-mid K-12 with all of its constraints and associated boredom from being forced to learn material they’ve mastered years or even a decade before.