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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any personal experience being held back or pushed forward with summer birthdays? Looking for long-range views. Do the top schools skew older? [/quote] My kid has a summer birthday and is 13 in 7th grade. He got teased for being "so old" in the lower grades, which was annoying, but the older they all get, the less often it happens. Academically and socially, he fits in just fine with his classmates -- and most of them turned or are turning 13 this year anyway. And hey, he'll be the first in his group to turn 21 in college.[/quote] I’m confused. Wouldn’t a summer birthday make him young for the grade?[/quote] If you are 13 at the start of 7th grade you are older than almost all the other kids. My son has a spring birthday and turned 13 two months before 7th grade ended. I had an early June birthday and was always one of the youngest in my grade. I was fine.[/quote]
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