Gladwell proposes acknowledging the importance of cut-off dates, suggesting setting up several different hockey leagues, or several different elementary classes, that would group children by birth months. He believes this would allow children to compete and learn with peers of a similar maturity level. Do you agree with his proposal? Why or why not? What other recommendations would you make to account for the unfair advantage that results from relative age?

Read the excerpt from the land. of my brothers, i was closest with robert. i suppose, in part, being the same year's children made us close, but there were other things too. we had been together practically since birth, and we always took care of each other. when i got into trouble, robert was there to pull me out of it if he could, or at least to see me through it, and i did the same for him. the passage provides evidence of why paul and robert have physical conflicts. paul and robert avoid social conflicts. paul is the least influenced by robert. paul is motivated to ask robert for .