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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never really get all the "grade year" arguments. We did not have a "grade year" cutoff in soccer before.  August 1st was not grade year - it is two months off of the Virginia school cutoff date.  So in Virginia soccer we went from 2 months off the school cutoff with Aug 1st to 3 months off the cutoff with birth year.  But this 5 month move completely changed who received the relative age advantage which I think is the root of all these discussions not "grade year".[/quote]

And now the ones with the advantage are in a panic it will be whipped out from under them, of course.[/quote]

This is an over-competitive parent thing.  Very few, if any, of the kids would want this changed again.  My son is in the latter part of the birth year.  He was "disadvantaged" by the birth year change.  He would not want his team broken up to re-obtain his "advantage".[/quote]

+1.  My daughter is the same.  She is one of the few who are Late part of the year, but would be so upset to leave her friends.    That said I’m not looking forward to the trapped year in current system when most of the team is in high school and she is in 8th grade.   [/quote]

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