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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I think we are on the same general page. Unfortunately, school politics and regulatory snarls, create the need for subject and grade acceleration to accommodate certain intellectual needs in our current age-graded educational platoon system. We need an education-graded platoon system not an age-based system. This will create a generation of students and their parents not suspicious or afraid of younger or older, taller or shorter, bigger or smaller classmates. [/quote]

Supports a focus on one's own children's educational needs (challenging and stimulating) rather than their ages, heights and weights or that of their classmates moving through school systems (private or public).  This reasonable operating principle does require navigating the sundry regulatory customs and practices unique to different school systems...ultimately choosing the best fit for your child's needs.

The published research adds nothing new save supporting basic physiological principles of adaptation that explains why any potential benefits of redshirting, if any, are shortlived.  This is pretty much what I would have predicated based on common sense and understanding established biologic and physiologic tenets.[/quote]

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