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[quote=Anonymous]I get the frustration. I have a swimmer whose ability to make A meets is definitely impacted by the two kids in the AG who are 18mos older, and it's hard.  But that's life in almost everything.  As pointed out there are cutoffs for school and other sports, so no matter what date you choose you're going to have kids potentially 2 or more years apart.

I'll also say now that we have middle schoolers it's hard emotionally on those summer birthday kids too as their friends move up an age group and they are stuck with the younger group.  My child has a friend who was a rising 8th grader this summer and was clearly unhappy to be in the age group with rising 6th graders while classmates moved into the teen ranks.  It didn't matter as much to them when they were all elementary schoolers but socially it was an impact.  No, it shouldn't be, but middle schoolers are irrational.

TLDL, changing the process might benefit my child so selfishly yes I'd say change it.  Reality is the cut-off is somewhere so I don't really stress about it.  It isn't worth a floating date for a 6wk season.    [/quote]

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