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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Birth year is the way to go period. its simple and standard. i hate when parents say but kids want to play with their friends. they will have friends on their team and they will be the same age as your kid . all the talk about well my kid is a sept. they dec. birthday  he will be younger. Don't you thing thats what the june and july parents dealt with before ? and it was fine then right? also the whole grade thing is so skewed because you might have a kid repeat a grade or be from another country an for example be 12 years old but only in 4th grade. talk about a physical advantage. long and short of it parents will whine and cry for the next 2 years but then it will be the norm and forgotten about [/quote]

July and August kids, at least in some clubs, had the option to play "up" with their grade level or remain with their age group. It was a nice option to have.

It'll blow over to some respect, but you'll still have these situations:

- Kindergartners who'll play their first season of soccer with first-graders, who have spent a year in a structured environment and are much more ready for team sports.

- 8th graders who are left stranded when half their team (9th graders) goes to play high school soccer in the spring.

- 12th graders who are left stranded when half their team graduates in the spring.

The last one of these isn't that big a deal -- age groups are often combined a bit by then, anyway. The other two need to be addressed.  [/quote]

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