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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people say that it gives the child one less year to work and earn money - it leaves them at a disadvantage. [/quote]

But someone who does better in school will go to a more prestigious university and get a higher-paying job. In the long-run, someone who starts a prestigious career at 22 is going to be much better off financially than someone who starts a mediocre career at 21.[/quote]

But there are plenty of people who start a prestigious career at 21.

In the meantime, some kid is sitting in 7th grade math asking why he is learning the same stuff as a bunch of kids a year younger than him.[/quote]

Why do you make things up? This doesn’t happen.[/quote]
It does. Except for me, it was a first grader wondering why the other kids can’t read yet.
And as a 5th grader annoyed the other kids don’t understand the math and why does the teacher have to teach the same thing over and over.
Being oldest in a class can be very boring for some children.[/quote]

So, oldest = smartest?[/quote]
Not always, but at younger ages, 10 to 14 months of age difference means the older child has had significantly more exposure to things like reading.[/quote]

Not always.  It depends when they learn to read and all that.  Mine was reading very young, so if mine started reading at 3.5, and another started at 5, then started school at 6, they really don't have more exposure vs. a child who was an early reader and parents worked on academics plus strong preschool[/quote]

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