After reading the article, "Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril," is that I agree that if a child were to skip kindergarten just to be ahead in school, "redshirting," would not be of any help to a student. Academics will take you to your future. In the article it states, "In high school, redshirted children are less motivated and perform less well. By adulthood, they are no better off in wages or educational attainment — in fact, their lifetime earnings are reduced by one year."
However, like in Outliers, everyone is different. Maybe one student may have trouble with future academics because of skipping a grade, while others may have the intellect, or maturity, to handle skipping a grade and adapt to this grade.
In Conclusion, I believe that both the atricle, and Outliers, have two very good points. In the article, skipping a grade, "reshirting", would most likely not help the student. However, in Outliers, the definition says it all, "..men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary." Some students may be different from the others and will adapt to this new grade, whether they are smart, or have a gift, good at adapting, or are just very mature.
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