[plantmanky]

You definitely missed something. I am obviously pro-holdbacks. However, when the rule goes into effect, it will be followed regardless of your opinion or mine. The problem lies with those currently enrolled in the 6th and 7th grade who may have been planning to hold back in their upcoming 7th or 8th grade year. The deadline for turning in the paperwork for those students/families has already passed prior to the decision to implement a holdback rule for the 2014-15 season. It is too late to for them to be retained for this next school year. If they had known sooner that this rule would be put into place for the 14-15 school year, they would have started the process and done it this coming year. The rule is not the problem. The fact that the rule was put in without enough notice for those select few to have the opportunity to do it this next school year is the problem.

Understand your point and I see where your coming from, and perhaps its a valid point. KDE has been reviewing MS athletics with its own committee since 2011, then in 2012 the HCR 155 task force was created to review ms athletics as well. While the regulation was just voted on and approved earlier this month, it has been in discussion for a while now.