I understand their reasons for keeping me with kids my own age, but at the same time, I feel that if I had skipped a grade (or maybe even two, who knows) I would have been more challenged in school, and would have done better because of that.
Not that I was a poor student by any means, but I never studied and just didn't care. I could have graduated high school with probably a 3.95 or so, honest to god, but I ended with a 3.83 or something like that because I didn't try. Now my grades in college suck and I'm maintaining a 3.0 by the skin of my teeth partly because I have very, very poor study skills.
But yeah, one of my best friends in high school was 11 months younger than I am, and was one of the youngest kids in our graduating class. It didn't mess her up or anything, but she does bitch in her journal sometimes that all her housemates wanna do is go to bars and she won't be 21 until this coming October.
So yeah, I don't know. =/