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[quote=Anonymous]This is idiotic because there will always be a kid who is oldest in the age group and that kid will always have an advantage, especially in certain groups where you see a lot of development between youngest and oldest.

I have a kids with an August 1 birthday. Even if you changed the rules, he'd have an advantage certain years because he's swimming against kids who are mostly younger than him, some as much as two full years. Yes it's unfair but there's literally no way to make it fair unless you created age groupings that were so narrow as to make differences irrelevant. Shall we have all kids born in 2015 between January and March swim in their own separate group? Meets could last for 12 hours and many kids would be swimming alone. Then more kids could "win"! Does that sound good?

Please just accept that sometimes the rules are not an advantage to you, personally, and move on. There are lots of ways in which my kid's August birthday is a negative for him (people are always out of town on his birthday, he's one of the youngest in his grade, etc.). We empathize with him when this stuff is hard but tell him sometimes you just have to make the best of it.

When these kids are grown none of this crap will have mattered.[/quote]

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