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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grade year enhances opportunities to "play with friends" and kids who play with their friends and schoolmates are more likely to continue playing the sport than kids who are playing with random fellow players. While many friendships do arise in these random travel situations, in younger kids these relationships aren't as strong as the relationships they have with their classmates.

In a sport where 75% of the players quit by age 13, there is some concern about what will keep more players interested over the long term. DA, yea whatever, it's a job. But for the hundreds of thousands of 'travel' kids US soccer wants to find a better solution than the churn and burnout situation they now have. Maybe grade year would do that--maybe not. Maybe DA stays on the International standard and travel moves to a more school friendly arrangement.

But I second the idea that this 'rumor' is probably just made up.[/quote]

While I think this is all just talk, I think the concept of returning to the school year system with an August cut off (which some Virginia school districts do) was better.  Then you can keep the DA on a calendar year.

The next part is mostly anecdotal so take it for what it's worth. 
 Pre-DA, when my DD did school year for travel and calendar year for ODP it was odd how varied sizes were in calendar years.  I don't know why, but for some reason, calendar year teams look more different, especially during the puberty years.

I've read a while back about what influences puberty onset, and how exposure impacts it.  So I wonder if it's related to peer group interactions.  [/quote]

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