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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]

I am not whining or crying but my kid who is small and slow for his age and was making strides developmentally to move from the bottom will now will be playing UP based on this change. Not sure how long my kid will stay w/ soccer - talk about forgotten -  but I understand how simple and standard is from your perspective.

On the friends side - it's not just acquaintances they will make for 8 weeks and then it's over, but classmates that they will know over a number of years that won't come and go based on the season, but rather attend the same grade at their school, participate in other sports (baseball, lacrosse, etc) and other activities (scouts, etc)

Yes, I understand June/July were the smallest but they could play w/ their classmates. The 12 year 4th grader is an absurd anomaly (vs 25% of the cohort) and would likely be playing up.

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