Redshirting Vs Outliers

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All parents want the best for their kids and will do anything to help them succeed. In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell discusses when kids are held back they succeed by getting another year to learn. Redshirting is getting held back a year by the parents and then attending kindergarten. Parents do this so their child can learn more in that year and mature. Redshirting has also been proven to help students and get them into college later in life. Redshirting should be allowed so that kids can learn more. Children who are redshirting are given more advantages than children who are not. In redshirting, a child is given a better opportunity. For example, “Scott Waster was born on January 4, with in three days of the absolute perfect
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Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success, he discusses the advantage redshirting brings to sports, by giving a child time to develop and compares it to the education system. Though redshirting could be helpful in sports, it is more harmful in the education system. Holding a child back a year can harm them later on in life because the first six years of a kid's life are when the child's brain develops the most. Holding off school will not help the child grow and develop their brain. Redshirting should…

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