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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No -this is a desperate parent hoping for some
Kind of bizarre advantage after the fact[/quote]

Nope. Birth year was only done for DA. DA failed. [b]Birth year didn't and doesn't work as well as school year. [/b]Time to just acknowledge that and try again. [/quote]

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Don't get this at all.  As far as my kids were concerned it worked no worse and no better than school year.  It made zero difference in fact.  [/quote]

It’s the kids with birthdays at the end of the year that were affected by this change. Our son is a 2003 with an August birthday. His team went from playing with kids in his grade (end of year 2003/beginning of year 2004’s) to all 2003’s (beginning of year 2003’s= juniors now/end of year 2003 = sophomores now) He was in 8th grade when this change happened- so half of his team were freshmen in high school. While the freshmen were playing high school soccer, his actual team did not have enough kids In 8th grade to field a team, so they had to combine with the clubs other 8th graders on lower level teams to be able to play at all during that fall season. It was basically a wasted half of the year that year for travel as he only played with his actual travel team for half of it.

This will affect him again at U19 when he is a senior, as half of his current team will graduate next year. So again, they have to come up with some kind of combined team his last season of travel.  If they changed back to the grade level, then he would have a full team again his senior year (go back to end of year 2003 & beg of year 2004’s who are all in the same grade right now). [/quote]

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