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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm newish to balto and the first time I heard this term I laughed out loud.  It's just a fancy word for "held back," thrown around by schools to placate parents and ensure the next great generation of lacrosse superstars.  It probably helps kids academically because, HELLO, they are a year older and received an additional year of school.  I don't begrudge the parents their "pre-first year" because they pay a lot of money for it, but to imply that it's anything other than a fancy way to pad the nest for a kid who probably isn't all that stellar academically, is pretty ridiculous. [/quote]

Welcome to Baltimore.

Sure, the kids at Gilman and Bryn Mawr are doing PF because they're kinda slow. :lol: :lol:[/quote]

I suspect the main reason they go to Gilman or Bryan mawr is because they live in the city, the reason they go to pre-first is that some brilliant person in the administration of some private school somewhere figured out that they could get another year of tuition out of parents whose kids were born in the summer. [/quote]

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