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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?

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you do realize that there will always be kids who miss the cutoff by a day no matter when you make it? It's rough on the 8th graders when most of their team is in 9th, it's great when they enter 7th already friends with 8th graders. Teams and school don't have to go hand and hand- even with school year age groups, you still have kids in public ad multiple schools and kids in private at multiple schools on the same team [/quote]

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