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Originally Posted by Taylor
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.
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You were one motivated 5 year old!
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Originally Posted by Taylor
As has been said before, this is not a black-and-white issue; statistics derive from people but people are not statistics. Your individual mileage may vary.
I wasn't too pretty do to homework, and I don't believe I've ever met anybody who is.
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No argument here with the caveat that people are statistics, but nothing ever says you the individual has to be close to the mean. Though statistically, most people will be.
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Originally Posted by Molten
Interesting data, but what is the harm in starting them early and holding them back a grade later on if needed? Wouldn't that give them an advantage over the student that stayed home and waited for a year? I completely agree it isn't a simple choice, but why do you have to pick? Can't you have both to some extent?
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I would imagine some of the social stigma that goes along with being held back a year would be quite harmful.
Back on the subject of T-shirts, I think they could send an equally inappropriate message if they sold t-shirts for engineers that said, "I'm too good at math for normal social interaction." They would get a lot of laughs at tech schools, which is really not a good thing.