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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people say that it gives the child one less year to work and earn money - it leaves them at a disadvantage. [/quote]

But someone who does better in school will go to a more prestigious university and get a higher-paying job. In the long-run, someone who starts a prestigious career at 22 is going to be much better off financially than someone who starts a mediocre career at 21.[/quote]

Except that there is not much evidence that being older gets  you that better job. In fact there's a reasonable body of evidence that having to hustle to keep up with the older kids as a younger kid in the class, they ended up surpassing them.   But as others have already said, only 1%ers can afford the extra cost of a year of daycare/being out of the workforce to mind a child.  I know a woman who was induced to have her early September due date baby in August so they wouldn't have that extra year of daycare.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/youngest-kid-smartest-kid[/quote]

Thought that was common knowledge. DC also had an August birthday. They were kind of quiet and very well behaved and were always at the top of the clas for math and reading from the start despite their age. [/quote]

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