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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the rules for all sports should age year not grade. its simple 10 year olds with 10 year olds. thats the most even playing field . i don't want to hear anything about kids in my kids class rec. should be fun blah blah blah. all of our kids have friends outside their classroom. why not in sports too? if you want to make rec just for fun open it to any friends who want to play together 10 yo 12 yo 15 yo why not have them all on the same team for fun? Save that mentallity for backyard games. let kids in organized sports compete with the same age kids. besides this rule will be an afterthought in in a few year and everyone will be fine all youth sports will continue to be played and so on.[/quote]
Yep.

My kid that started K on time has many classmates that are 18 months-2 years older.

Ridiculous on the playing field.  I love when they go to travel and finally have to compete true to age.  They are way behind.[/quote]

I don't understand what either of you is talking about.

Currently in Rec, and in Travel, no one has to play with someone who is more than a year older.  If you are an August or September kid you can choose to play up with your classmates, but you don't have to.  And a kid who started kindergarten at age 7 (I find it hard to believe there are any of these) would have to play in his own age group with first/second graders.

And under the new calendar year age cutoff 10-year-olds aren't with 10-year-olds any more than they were under the old system.  A kid born Dec. 31 can be playing with a kid who is 364 days older than him.  The cutoff just means Oct-Nov-Dec kids are disadvantaged, versus May-June-July kids under the old cutoff.  Or are you proposing that they have a system, like in year-round swimming, where the day a child turns 11, he has to move up an age group?  That would be most equitable but isn't really practical in a team sport like soccer.[/quote]

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