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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not unusual to be 15 at the end of 8th grade in FCPS.  We know plenty of girls turning 15 in August when 9th grade starts.  These girls were redshirted.  So I imagine there are some boys, and girls, who were red shifted with Spring birthdays and will ne 15 towards the end of 8th grade.[/quote]

Yes, and plenty of kids who will be 13 all through 8th or who will start 8th at 12 and then turn 13 right before the cutoff. So 12-15 is the new normal 8th grade age range.[/quote]

That is a huge difference. Do they play any sports? Those are by birth year. So they are 8th graders playing soccer with 10th graders? [/quote]

Not really.
I have a child who was 12 when 8th grade began and turned 13 in September.  A couple classmate were 14 when the school year began and turned 15 in the spring.
At no point was my child who is 12 and was sent "on time" in the same grade as a child who was 15.
They were 12 when a few other children were 14.
Then my child was 13 when they were 15. NBD.
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So it didn't make you angry that your son was being outshined by these kids for the sole reason that were more ridiculously older him and not because they were genuinely more gifted than him?[/quote]

Does it make you angry when.a younger child I’m the same grade outshines your held back kid?[/quote]

What? It's the older kid who has the advantage over the younger kid, so there's nothing impressive about an older kid outshining a younger kid. If, however, a younger kid outshines an older kid, it means that that younger kid is genuinely more gifted than that older kid and genuinely deserved to win whatever competition was between them, so there was no cheating involved and therefore, no call for anger.[/quote]

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