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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ADHD is more likely to be diagnosed in the youngest kids in the year.

In the UK the oldest students are the most likely to be admitted to Oxford university.

That’s what the research says and is plainly wrong and something that public policy makers and administrators should  be trying to mitigate.

6 month year grouping until middle school wouldn’t be a bad idea, that should be short enough for the age gaps to be negligible.[/quote]

The oldest students are also more likely to get their undergraduate degrees in 4 years and less likely to drop out of college. In fact, I bet that if you looked at everyone who ever dropped out of college or took longer than 4 years to graduate, you'd see that the vast majority started college before they were 18.[/quote]

This doesn’t even make sense.  The vast majority of school systems default to starting kids in K who have turned 5 before the start of school.  This means that after 13 years of school (K-12) they turn 18 before they start college. Unless you’re contending that either there’s a widespread phenomenon of parents talking schools into starting their preschool prodigies early because they’re advanced enough for K at 4, only to drop out of college later, or that college dropouts come primarily from the few school districts that have later start dates, but only students whose birthdays fall between the start of school and the cutoff.  Numerically, I’d be highly surprised if the numbers of both conditions added together come anywhere near the number of college students who fsil to complete a degree in four years. [/quote]

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