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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have 2 boys in our family with summer bdays less than a week apart. One went on time, the other waited a year. Both sets of parents made the correct call for their kid. Two very different kids who are both doing well academically and socially 5 years later.

Both kids have awesome summer swim bdays though![/quote]

How do you know the held back kid would not have been just fine in the proper grade.  In summer swim the kids talk about ages and grades as well as classes. [/quote]
What does it even mean that kids talk?

My kid will be a 10 yo rising 6th grader next summer.  That means she'll be separated from all of her friends/classmates for all practices, relays, social events, etc. I'm sure it will be discussed that she's still grouped with the elementary aged kids while her friends/classmates are with the middle school group.  If we'd redshirted then she'd be grouped with  her classmates instead of the younger grade.

(She has a September birthday, so she'd be in the younger swim age group regardless of the cutoff.)[/quote]

Mine has the same birthday.  Come MS and HS they compare what grade they are in and what classes they are taking.  So, at 13/14 yours will start high school and can either be in pre-algebra in 6th or in 8th.   Why would she be separated.  It goes by age and most age up the September birthdays or that was our experience.[/quote]
She'll be separated because she'll swim in the 9-10 age group and practice.   All her friends will swim in the 11-12 age group and practice next summer.  At our pool there's a 10u practice, a 14u and an 18u practice.  She can't practice up or she won't be able to practice with her relay.[/quote]
I’ve been a swim parent a long time and “practicing with their relay” has never been a thing. Relay slots are fluid, both due to vacations and people being overtaken, and they’ve never been a focus at practice. They do relays for fun at the end of practice sometimes, but it’s not necessarily with the people doing a relay together during the meet. [/quote]

Yup, the only time my kid (who was in this exact age situation last year) practiced with her relay was the week between divisionals and all-stars. They didn’t practice together before the relay carnival that qualified them for all stars.

Both my summer swimmers just practice up with their friends during the years they aren’t in the same age division with the rest of their friends. It’s not a big deal at all. [/quote]

+1.  But NVSL has more relays built into the meet structure than MCSL does.[/quote]

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