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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing I don't get about this as a phenomenon is that the kids eventually figure it out and they start to think of the oldest kids in class as the "dumb" ones because even an 8 year old knows that a 10 year old should be doing high level work.

So yeah your 10 year old might be the best reader in class but the other kids are aware that that kid shouldn't be in their class in the first place. Kids are much cannier than we give them credit for. They're not fooled by this kind of gaming of the system.[/quote]

Huh. I've never heard such a comment from either of my kids. And if I did, I would talk to them about it.[/quote]

I would be interested to know what you say. I don't know what to say, especially since I have a summer bday one who I sent on time. Mine has said just out of curiosity - "so and so in my grade is one year older than me and even older than X who is one grade ahead of us!"

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I'm the PP you're responding to. I would say, "Yup, different families do things differently."

And to the other PP -- no, I don't remember thinking that the older kids in the class were dumber than the younger kids. To the extent that I thought about people's ages at all, it was only because they would point out that they were already [whatever], while I was still only [whatever minus 1, or sometimes even whatever minus 2], because I was always the youngest kid in the class.[/quote]

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