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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This always makes me secretly glad for my middle of the pack January month kid. [/quote]

Yeah, uh, that kid will be one of the oldest.[/quote]

No, I think middle??

Yes I have an summer young one who I sent on time and I hated hearing that red shirted kids would be over a year older. With my Jan bday kid I have less of a reaction hearing about redshirted kids bc it's only 6 months older.

Re: sports, it's interesting. I read the chapter about this in one of Malcolm Gladwell's books. But at the same time, I see that the kids who are REALLY good are better than kids multiple years older than them. [/quote]

Oldest.  Sorry.[/quote]

A January birthday with a 9/30 or 9/1 cutoff as we have in VA and MD would be middle of the pack. Younger than all the Oct, Nov, Dec kids and the Sept kids if you have a 9/1 cutoff, AND also younger than the summer birthday kids who started late. The kid would turn 6 midway through K and would turn 18 midway through senior year of high school. That's pretty normal. [/quote]

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