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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the people saying not to change back have kids that weren't good enough to play on top teams within the same grade,  but now are the better players cause they play a grade younger.  [/quote]

+1.  Taking my own kids out of the equation and looking at it objectively, grade year is better. And all you high school soccer fans should be the first to advocate for it.  If you're in the DA, then I see why you don't care. [/quote]

No it’s not better. It does the same thing. You have some kids who are at an age disadvantage or advantage based on there birthday. A better system would be to have each age year broken down by 3 month periods(group one Jan-Mar, group two Apr-June, etc). At about u13 or u14, you consolidate the age years. They do not even record scores till u12. [/quote]

The problems and interference it causes for 8th graders and the impact on junior and senior teams makes it better by grade.  It's not perfect, but the problems have compounded and multiplied going by calendar year. [/quote]

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