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

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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.
You were one motivated 5 year old!

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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.
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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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?
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.
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