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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Birth Year is the universal way to go. It allows your kid to broaden their pool of friendships if anything. I mean whose to say the school friends are even all at equal skill levels ? Many may be placed on B or C teams or even at different clubs. Playing with their classmates over their talent level is a weak argument. [/quote]

Do any of you understand how it works?  Rec is not talent-level based, it’s school and/or neighborhood based.  Travel (even when it was school calendar year) was always talent-based.  So kids playing rec—first, 2nd, 3rd grade in rec would be with classmates and best friends in calendar year.

Now that birth year has pushed travel to the even younger age groups—you have fall bday kids in 1st grade trying out for travel to remain with early birth year kids the school year ahead.  They are starting travel a full year earlier.  Studies show more kids are burning out by going to the 90 min 3X week practice schedule and missing all of their friends bday parties and trips out of town at 7/8/9 years old.  Parents sign them up early so they won’t get frozen out of the top teams if they delay switching to travel.

Nobody is talking about college/HS kids when they talk about “playing w/friends”.  Good lord.  The HS issue is about losing a team and having to play w/ lower group when the early bdays graduate. And the 8th grade issue is ABOUT talent level—having to play with a mish-mash of lower level players and/or having almost no spring games due to being a “trapped” Fall bday.[/quote]

Studies show? Please post these studies after two whole years of birth year. Somehow kids in Europe do birth year and they don’t quit the game.

Travel soccer is not a social activity and is under no obligation to form teams based on friends.

If you believe travel starts to soon then keep your kid in rec another year. [/quote]

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