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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Some kids have issues. Their parents are trying not to make those issues worse. That is not putting your issue-less child at a disadvantage. This is not a zero sum game. It has no bearing on your kid and, in fact, it's none of your fkcing business.[/quote]

And some kids don't have any issues other than being a bit young for the grade. Their parents see that as a disadvantage--not an issue, just a disadvantage. And the parent don't want their kids to be disadvantaged and they don't give a damn that doing this will disadvantage the kids who end up in the same class as their little snowflake and can't keep up with a kid more than a year older.

Yes, co-ordination  matters. In the aggregate, that is aligned with age, especially among little kids. So, walk down an elementary school classroom fpr grades K-3 at a school where the children's work is displayed. Look at the handwriting on the reports. In most cases, the best, most legible printing or writing will belong to the oldest kids  in the class. Look at the artwork. Again, the best art--the art in which you can actually figure out what the child was drawing--will belong to the oldest kids in the class. Watch kindergarten kids playing in activity centers. Which kids are coming up with the ideas for what the group should do and getting the others to follow their lead? Usually, it's the older ones. Go out on the playground. Watch the kids traveling across the monkey bars. Which kids have the upper body strength to do it? Usually it's the oldest ones.

Back when  my parents went to school, the public elementary school in their community used a semester system. So, if you were the right age by a certain age, you started in September. If you missed that cut off, you started in January. Nobody even thought of redshirting.

More recently, I know there was a suburb of Dallas Texas which grouped kindergarteners by age. There were so many incoming kids, that each classroom usually had kids with birthdates in about a 2 month span.  So the kids who had been redshirted--pretty common in Texas, at least then-- were  all in the same class.

Heck, we all know that at most private pre schools, even now, there's a "young 3s" or an "Older 3s" classroom. If age doesn't matter why do these schools do this?[/quote]

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