[khsgamenight]

Obviously there are numerous advantages to staying back, while the kids want to stay back for sports the adults are more inclined to it because the advantages of it academically and in maturity. What kid is going to want to stay back, because Daddy says it'll help him later, and not play? Not a single one... and I can count on one hand the number of kids who will agree to stay behind a grade at 10 years old. I agree with not allowing students to hold back in high school but not in middle school.

You are probably right. However, that is where good parenting steps in. At the age of 10, it shouldn't really matter what the child wants to do. The child will do what the parent tells them they are going to do. (At least that's the way it works at my house)