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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The modern school system was established in 1910 when life expectancy was 50 years. Pushing kids out of the school system by 18 and out of college by 21/22 was created during a time when life expectancy was 50 years. Life expectancy today is 80 years. When you're expected to only live until 50 it was important to join the workforce at 18/21. An 18 year old today is very different from an 18 year old a hundred years ago. I don't understand the rush to push kids out of the system. My DS who's in HS is a summer baby. He wasn't redshirted and he's doing fine academically and is social but he still looks like a little kid and people often assume he's younger. If I had to do it again, I might have redshirted him because in the whole scheme of things one more year in school is by no means going to put him behind in the very long life we expect his generation to have but, rather, help him be that much more prepared because he will have had more time to mature. [/quote]

[b]So why not a gap year? That's becoming more common anyway.[/b]

I did not view starting my summer birthday child "on time" as a rush to get them out of the house and employed by 18. It just made sense -- if a child is 5 by the time K starts, and they have no delays, they can usually not only handle K but are often excited about learning to read and getting more academic instruction. At least that was the case with mine. I think another year of singing songs and free-play in preschool would have been okay but felt a little bit repetitive at some point.[/quote]

We would absolutely be supportive of a gap year. My point is it should be ab individual choice and people shouldn't feel too bound by the cut off age because, as some pointed out, that even varies by school system.  Parents also shouldn't feel "bad" or "embarrassed", as one poster commented, because their kid will be the oldest (someone's gotta be!) or 18 for their year of senior year. That's just silly. [/quote]

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