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[/quote]You are trying way too hard and are just wrong.  Age groupings are just as arbitrary.  [b]Why does swim team have an August 1 cutoff[/b], school has a Sept 30 cutoff, some sports have a calendar year cut off, and camp has a requirement that you be the age at the time of registration (so anywhere between January and July, if the camp doesn't fill up)?   Peers aren't limited to those born the same month as you.

Social groupings matter.  Classmates matter.  It's not a race to finish your education before you die.[/quote]

Because otherwise, your 16 year old 9th grader will be competing against a 14 year old 8th grader in the same competition. Given average maturation rates, is that fair?[/quote]The cutoff date is totally arbitrary.  Swim or camp or school could use any cutoff.   [/quote]

If they are using birthdays how is this possible? The kids aren’t born in the same 12 month time frame and they aren’t in the same grade? [/quote]

Why are people so bad at understanding this?

If school has a Sept 30 cutoff and sports or camp have a summer cutoff, then late summer birthday kids who go on time are forced to group with kids in the grade below for social activities.  This means that late summer and September birthday kids don't fall in a single grouping, essentially encouraging redshirting.  If age cutoffs matched across the board, I think we'd see less redshirting.  [/quote]

+1.  DS has an August bday and went to school on time (he turns 6 in August and is a rising 1st grader).  I had to call a few of the camps to sign him up for the 1st grade cohort, because I couldn't do it automatically online since he is still 5 and the website wouldn't accept that. [/quote]

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