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Re: Someone at JC Penney didn't get the message

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Originally Posted by Taylor (Post 1076238)

However, if my parents had waited the extra year to place me into school, I may have lost the drive, the motivation, the challenge in that year of academic inactivity.

In re "academic inactivity", we are talking about Kindergarten here, correct? Not High School?

Albeit if you were chomping at the bit to go to school, then holding you back would probably would have been the wrong move. Sounds like your parents did the right thing in your specific case.

Re: Someone at JC Penney didn't get the message

I was born 10 days before the grade cutoff for my year, and after having gone through all my years of school and college, I'm glad my parents did not hold me back a year.

I understand it is a very difficult decision for parents at that age, and while not having read Outliers, the points from it brought up in this thread are interesting. There is definitely no right or wrong, but I feel that my parents made the best decision for me based on the small sample size of data that had regarding my academic abilities.

While I was always the smallest kid in my class, and always the last to experience life milestones like getting your license or going out to the bars, I wouldn't trade my experience for anyone else's.

Just another data point to throw on the pile.

-Brando