[plantmanky]

I now understand your response to my comment you highlighted in bold. Would you care to respond to the rest of my post? My ending comments answer your question directed to Belfry0304. It's not fair to those students CURRENTLY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL who can not be retained for next year because the deadline for the school district has passed PRIOR to the decision to implement these rules for the 2014-15 school year. Students who had plans to do so in the next year or two will be screwed by this decision. Once again, I'm not against the rule. It's a timing issue for me. There should be a waiting period to give those a chance if they so choose. Logically, the rules should have been put into effect when this years 5th graders were in 8th grade.

The rest of your post, unless I missed something, was about holdbacks. I do not think holdbacks should be allowed period. You think they should, what is to discuss?