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Bullying still happens among children of same age.

• User23 4y ago
  Children of the “same” age in school can be 11 months and 30 days apart in age. That is absolutely huge during the grade school years. In fact, month of birth is a significant factor in student athletic success. And when it comes to physical bullying, yes it’s generally the larger more physically mature kids doing the bullying.
  • charrondev 4y ago
    Athletics is a pretty poor excuse for hampering a child’s education. Athletics should be separate from schooling and run by the community (as is Europe).
    • paulryanrogers 4y ago
      Sadly sports funds large portions of some school budgets in the US. School funding is quite messed up. Individually you feel pressure to move into the best school districts. Yet collectively it falls into racial boundaries because of decades of systemic racism. Forced busing suddenly fixes a lot of the funding biases, but is very unpopular because fear of the other is hard to overcome.
    • mlyle 4y ago
      "In fact, month of birth is a significant factor in student athletic success." This was not an argument for school athletics. It was an observation that age quantization-- whether by schools or by private athletic leagues-- makes a big difference on the trajectory of athletes. In turn, you have from age quantization alone pretty big physical differences in students of the same nominal age. Your comment is completely orthogonal to what you replied to.