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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Truthfully my 2nd son in K was asked to play with 3rd graders because it wasn’t fair to the other kids .

It sounds insane but that is when I sort of had an inkling.

My older son in 4th  grade really could not find a team where he wasn’t the absolute best until college,

Doesn’t mean we “wrote off” others as being athletic. [/quote]

What? how old was he in Kinder? redshirted?[/quote]

No he was 5, not redshirted.

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what sport? [/quote]

Must be some weird sport like ice skating[/quote]

Pulling a kinder kid up to playing in 3rd grade would be extremely unusual. We live in a super competitive area with pro athletes and SEC d1 athlete’s kids on every team for baseball and football and I have not seen that. I’ve seen a kid played up rarely in soccer or lax but just one year and in the case of lax they are redshirted kids who should be in the grade above by their birthday. [/quote]

My younger kid used to get pulled up in trainings/pick up by our big large club when he was in K to play with 3rd graders---but not placed on team.  He was lightyears ahead of kids his age.  He was also tiny, but tough.  That leveled out and went away since he is a late developer.  I rarely see play ups now with older kids---or the parents go on and on and on about their kid playing up a year and the kid has a January bday...so it's 1 month up not a year..lol.  Basically the same age as my December born kid since it is birth year.  BFD.[/quote]

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