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I'm for finding a better solution and said what I think the better solution is. 6 month age grouping through elementary school and bio banding beyond.

If size is the issue then it is easier to designate a percentile in size during middle school that allows for change as the player grows and changes. But two 6 month age groups per birth year through 9th grade is unnecessary and overly complicated.

The game gets competitive in middle school and kids simply make the team or they don't but it will be based on differing factors by then because the system was more inclusive at the youngest ages and more developmentally tailored. If kids STILL need a helping hand then bio banding is a better instrument and more precise and flexible than maintaining a seemingly more and more arbitrary cutoff as they get older. Parents bitch now about trapped 8th graders imagine not being able to play with your friends through middle school because of the half of year you were born. You attend the same classes everyday, eat lunch together but have to play on different teams because one is born in June and the other in July?[/quote]

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