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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]OP, I am an early October birthday. I started K at 4. It was in California, though.

[b]The only time it posed any issues was in later teen years when I was always the last of my peers to get a driver's license, turn 18, turn 21, etc.[/b] But in hindsight, that wasn't very traumatic. And it's balanced now by the fact that I'm the last to hit 40, etc. Turnabout is fair play. [/quote]

In California at that time, the cut off was 31 December (I don't know if they changed it since then, but I have a 29 year old friend who went to school in California and that was the cut off date when he was there.)  An October birthday there was well before the cut off, so there would be lots of other kids with similar birthdays. Very different from being almost a month younger than the next youngest kid in the class.

No matter how smart a child is, he or she still is developing physically and emotionally. Intellectual, physical, and emotional development all take place at different rates and advancement in one does not guarantee advancement in the others. [/quote]

Yes, I see this frequently...people from our generation talking about how they were "young" in their class and it all worked out.  But I think a lot more places had calendar year cut offs when we were kids and people aren't remembering that part.  New York state had a December 31 cut off when I was a kid too.  [/quote]

I don't think being the last to turn 21 is such a big deal. I mean, in order to be the first to turn 21, you'd have to turn 21 your freshman or sophomore year, which isn't preferable for most of us. Most people don't graduate from college in 4 years.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_326.10.asp

http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2013/aug/11/ron-johnson/average-college-degree-takes-six-years-us-sen-ron-/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/education/most-college-students-dont-earn-degree-in-4-years-study-finds.html?_r=0

http://business.time.com/2013/01/10/the-myth-of-the-4-year-college-degree/

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_104.20.asp[/quote]

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