[Blackwater]

So, student safety and physical and mental development is not a benefit. All this talk about "hold backs" is disgusting. It is not for academic development, it is for pure athletic gain, if ther is any gain. You have a group of potential athletes at a certain grade level, hold them back and beat the snot out of everyone for a couple years. Then, when they get to high school the group never seems to hold together. One or more transfers because mom and dad does't like the direction the program is going, usually as it relates to their child. If you want your child to be more mature and academic ready, start them in kindergarten a year later. That would solve all your concerns, bigger, stronger, and will graduate at 18 or 19 years of age. Benefit, they will go through school with their peers and friends they have made when they first entered school. They won't have to sit in class and hear the same content being taught over again and be bored out of their brains.