[FOX SPORTS]

This is from the KHSAA Handbook:
Do parents have options relative to holding students
back in grade eight?
Kentucky Department of Education regulations place the
responsibility for promotion or retention of a student on
school personnel and not parents. Once “promoted” from
the eighth grade, a student’s four consecutive calendar
years (8 semesters) of athletic eligibility begins.
A student repeating the eighth grade may not represent
a high school team at any level. In addition, if parents
retain a student in the eighth grade after the student
has been promoted, then that student will lose his or her
senior year of eligibility.