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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience as a middle school teacher (nearly 3 decades), I've seen many extremely bright summer birthday kids (especially boys, but girls as well) hit a wall academically around 7th-grade when kids who are even a bit older start to leapfrog over them in terms of maturity.  This often plays out in terms of poor organizational skills that can swamp even the most able students.  At the same time, the younger kids find themselves struggling to keep up as the social scene changes dramatically.  For this reason, my husband and I decided to have our own summer birthday kids start kindergarten at age 6.  We have never regretted it.       [/quote]

This is what happened to me. I was very young for my grade (pushed ahead), and though bright enough, really hit a wall maturity-wise in 7th grade. It was a mistake to send me early. It wasn't a mistake academically in the end, but socially it was very difficult, and it took me a long time to catch up as far as organizational skills.

What I take away from all of this is that current schooling measurements are wrong and we place far too much value on measurements that are inaccurate at best. [/quote]

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