[bob green]

Why not just start the kid late instead of holding them back in 7th and 8th grade? Or repeating a critical grade for reading and math skills like 2nd and 3rd grade? I would find it hard to swallow as a parent that my 7th grade boy would have to compete with the kids that could be freshman or soph's in football. At some point kids pay the price for all this hold back stuff because older kids are taking the younger kids positions because its their second year on the 8th grade team type stuff. I am all for kids graduating older and being a 19 year old senior, but getting to play 8th grade football twice is not right.