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This practice is known as academic redshirting, a name borrowed from athletic redshirting whereby athletes are held back a grade to gain size advantages for the team. The most common reason parents give for academic redshirting is to give their children who have late birthdays (and would be among the youngest in a class of five-year-olds) academic and social advantages over their peers in the classroom.