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Jan 26, 2023
3:48:11pm

CougarTail Contributor

Got a family in our ward who does this primarily for an advantage in sports

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CougarTail

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POLL: Did your parents hold you back in school so you could be older instead of younger for your grade?

jacobugath INSUFFERABLE KNOW IT ALL

1/26/23 3:44pm

No, and I'm glad, but I did with several of my kids.

bluecheese

1/26/23 3:46pm

Got a family in our ward who does this primarily for an advantage in sports

CougarTail

1/26/23 3:48pm

Had one like that as well. Not one started on varsity their sr year

ChiCityCoug

1/26/23 3:52pm

How many of their kids played college sports?

jacobugath

1/26/23 3:59pm

Jury is still out on this. They aren't in HS yet.

CougarTail

1/26/23 4:01pm

Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in Outliers. Pretty convincing data it helps

runnincoug

1/26/23 4:16pm

Knew a family that did the same.

Spaniard

1/26/23 4:07pm

We moved our girls up with nice success. No regrets.

HarlemCoug

1/26/23 3:51pm

Opposite. Advanced a grade and was younger and smaller until I finally caught

Hoopster

1/26/23 3:51pm

Ha! I graduated HS at 16. It’s a fact.

Lifi

1/26/23 3:56pm

We had our son wait a year to start school.

Eddie

1/26/23 3:56pm

Very glad I did. We did the same with one daughter and probably should

Thrill

1/26/23 4:00pm

I was one of the youngest in my graduating class

530Coug

1/26/23 4:05pm

We must have similar birthdays, but opposite for me

A_blue_car

1/26/23 4:10pm

I wonder all the time about that.

530Coug

1/27/23 1:27pm

Two of my four skipped their Sr Year of HS

Nat Gas Man

1/26/23 4:06pm

Hopefully, you helped them get their GEDs! 🙂

Hoopster

1/26/23 4:08pm

Nope just graduated early

Nat Gas Man

1/26/23 6:11pm

I assumed that and not that they skipped school. 😀

Hoopster

1/26/23 7:42pm

My sister did it with her son and he is sooooo bored in kindergarten.

RGGeemer

1/26/23 4:11pm

My parents didn’t’t hold me back, but I did do kindergarten twice as we moved

Littlerich

1/26/23 4:20pm

We did this to our now 16 y/o with an August b-day. We had him skip 7th grade

demon_llama

1/26/23 6:07pm

no but they should have. I have a late August b-day and was a late bloomer.

qwerew

1/26/23 6:57pm

I absolutely would have held back my boys if they had a late b-day.

qwerew

1/26/23 7:01pm

That's exactly what we did. Aug 31 birthday - no way he was ready.

Eddie

1/27/23 11:23am

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