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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you have a summer birthday boy and don’t redshirt, you’re silly.  It’s not just about athletics either, [b]it’s about sending a 17 year old boy off to college. [/b] No thank you. But that’s for a different forum and post.

Regardless, my summer birthday kid has an august bday.  He his the age he swims at all season, not older.  He’s just lucky.  Moving the age cut off to august or September would mean he’d age up before he reached max age.  That doesn’t happen with a June 1 cutoff, for anyone. That’s why the cut off is where it is.  [b]Very few kids are swimming “old” — only those with June and July bdays. [/b]Just get over it. [/quote]
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How would sending a summer bday kid on time to kindergarten equate to sending them to college at 17? I’m a summer bday and I entered college at 18. Yes, the kids who are born the past week of august will be 17 years 11 months and 3 weeks.

Where we live I rarely see kids redshirted. I can think of only one in my sons grade. Several August boys.  I know of an October kid who tested in early as well. They all seem perfectly fine academically and socially. [/quote]

Summer ends mid-September. Colleges start mid-to-late August. Plenty of 17 yr olds going off to college. [/quote]

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