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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]

Some research says younger kids do better.  [/quote]

Sure, one study, not from this century, of a few Italian students who attended a specialized economics school in Milan came to that conclusion.

Do you have any idea just how weak the "studies" that say that younger students do better are in this area of "science"? They can barely be called studies. The ADHD ones are solid because they are large and have been replicated across multiple populations and they are focused on a medical condition. But these mushy "younger students do better" studies that people reference have been vastly oversold. You simply cannot compare them to the ADHD studies (which aren't about redshirting at all, incidentally, and are replicated in countries that have no redshirting). [/quote]

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