[riverrat11]

Goal line,
Remember your not the only person paying taxes. The parents that choose to hold their children back pay the same type of taxes that you pay and it's their right as a parent to make that decision as far as holding back their child that they payed their hard earned tax dollars on. This post can go on and on because you are single minded and do not want to hear that their are different reasons for every circumstance, you are just set in thinking that ALL holdbacks are bad. That's fine for you but what about that child that's in need of feeling successful at something and he's half way decent at sports but not socially or mentally ready to enter high school??? Is it wrong for that child to receive some positive reinforcement that may just keep him or her in school in the future, if your a parent you will say NO that's it's an individual decision for individual children. What do you think about my decision to hold my child back when he was in the first grade? Was it wrong for me to do it then? He will turn 15 in his 8th grade year, end of year but he will be 15 during his 8th grade year.

I totally agree!!