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Here’s the thing. The wealth gap is bigger than ever. The achievement gap is bigger than ever. I have a lot of acquaintances and friends who openly state that they did read short for the advantage to their neurotypical child. With hardly any low income families redshirting what are we actually saying here? Do you think wealthy children of well educated parents are less bright? I dont. I think the statistics are moving quickly up because obviously there is an advantage. Now, as a general rule it’s normal and right of people to ave opinions about things that can or may impact them.

I do not think that the growing gaps between rich and poor are good for our country. If you can truly look at the stats and still make this just about “your” slower/smaller/whatever child, rather than noticing the systemic trends in redshirting, okay. I couldn’t. [/quote]

Of course it is. We keep importing people from other countries with no education. We keep damaging our environment and making bad decisions on childbirth to where more children are born with defects or develop them through their environment. Meanwhile the internet and capitalism are helping wealthier people become wealthier. Any academic metric can be age normed. We already give more than twice the resources now to children who are ESOL and special-ed throughout the K-12 years. What else are you expecting be done?[/quote]

Our entire nation was founded by imported people from other countries. Yes, we also keep revolutionizing IVF and embryo adoption and genetic testing which is helping reduce defects and treat defects better than ever. The internet and capitalism are all humming along thanks to people with educations. Yes, it can be. Why does it have to be? Surely you don't advocate for having a 10 year old in first grade and just applying age metrics, right? So you'd support a rule at some age? Me too. Yes, we do.

I expect that in light of recent trends a legal change will happen. [/quote]

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