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[quote=Anonymous]I've been watching the AAP threads pretty closely these past few months, as my oldest is in second grade and going through the process.  I've seen a number of comments about relative age (apparently not taken into consideration on this year's FfxAT).  I have two kids on both sides of this spectrum:  My oldest I held back a year (late Sept b-day was just part of it).  He is thus, one of the oldest in his class.  My second child is in 1st grade.  She is almost 2 years younger than her older brother  (July b-day), but only a year behind in school, because I sent her "on time".

I can understand, to a degree, why people may feel that an AAP admissions process that doesn't "age neutralize" kids is somewhat unfair -- but either it does or it doesn't or it doesn't do it perfectly.  But at some point, as parents, aren't you worried that if your "younger" child only gets into AAP because of some "age credit" -- and then has to survive as an equal with kids who are smarter, more mature, etc. (even IF it is simply due to the fact that they're older) -- are you really doing your child a favor?  Does your child really belong in that class?  As a parent with 2 kids on either side of this spectrum, I have to say the current process seems pretty good to me.

I don't know --

It seems to me that if Ffx county wants to address what they see as a "redshirting problem"  (and certainly I see things that seem to be an abuse of the system), that they can do that.  But I don't know that it's productive to allow it in the first place, and then try to "age norm" every activity after that.

JMO.  I'm sure others will have different perspectives.[/quote]

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