My five year old son began kindergarten this year at a private school. I was not aware when enrolling him that redshirting was a common practice at this school. My son has an Aug bday and is small for his age. His teacher agrees that academically he is ready but that he is too young. Many of the children are a year older than him. He looks forward to going to school everyday and is completing his work and homework without trouble. He even occasionally asks for extra work. He is looking forward to going on to first grade next year with his friends. He has had one temper tantrum at school and been spoken to for two other minor behavior issues. We do not feel this is excessive. Every time we speak to his teacher she says he is just too young for kindergarten. We feel that her opinion is affecting the way she interacts with our son, she expressed this, to me in front of him at least once already. We have two older children that transferred to this school for the current school year due to their school closing. We do not want to interrupt their education any further. We live in a rural area and our children are already traveling more than an hour to attend this school. Sending them to different schools would be very difficult.