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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait- will these 10yo girls be turning 20 their senior year of high school??? Crazy.[/quote]

No.

3rd grade -- started at 9 and turned 10
4th -- were 10 turned 11
5th -- 11 turned 12
6th -- turned 13
7th -- 14
8th -- 15
9th - 16
10th -- 17
11th -- 18
12th -- started at 18 and turned 19 during the school year.

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If they are 22 months older than OP’s DD that has a summer birthday they will be 19th e whole senior year and turn 20 right before they start freshman year in college. I don’t think starting college at 20 is a problem at all BTW, but I do think it’s a problem to have kids that are 22 months apart in the same classroom
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It’s not necessarily a problem academically but it’s more an issue on expectations.  People say younger kids are less mature but they are not and age appropriate.   The older kids will always be less mature as their peer group is younger and that is the baseline.

My 13 year old just finished 8th grade.    That is more than 22 months if that poster says a 13 year old belongs in 6th. I cannot imagine my child who is about to start high school just starting middle school.  [/quote]

This is exactly it. The older girls in this grade are going to be in a situation where they are physically and psychologically more developed (or in the case of puberty, more hormone-addled) but in a grade that isn't really set up to deal with those issues. They will be in late elementary school with teachers used to pre-pubescent kids when they are going through things kid normally go through in middle school. So there won't be the same awareness at the school or efforts to address what's going on with these kids. Are these kids going to get middle-school level sex ed in 4th or 5th grade? This whole situation would stress me out.

They will be emotionally immature and unprepared for their physical maturity. These ages are already pretty hard for a lot of kids. This is a tinder box.

If I were OP, I'd be gone. I might talk to the administration about it and point out the issues, to see if they might age segregate the cohort and make some effort to address the puberty issues with the older group in a separate class, which would enable OP's DD to stay in a class with the younger side of the cohort who will be more in line with her, maturity wise. But short of that, I would not want to send my young-for-her-age DD to a school like this. They really effed this up.[/quote]

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