[goBIGblue82]

I respect your answer but I find that VERY hard to believe. Your actually saying that a child that stays back in the 7th grade has to sit out of sports for the ENTIRE year? I cant believe parents are letting that happen. Or is it if the teacher puts retained they can then play. If so, then its all the same.

Yeah that's exactly what he is saying. If a child is held back in 7th grade then he sits out of athletics for that ENTIRE year. That's also why almost every parent that decides to hold a child back does so before they enter middle school. If a child is in the little league program they can still participate in the little league program in a hold back year. But as soon as they are involved in middle school athletics they must abide by this rule. Like others said it has been done like this at Corbin for a very long time. Most schools in the conference had rules similar to this and every team in the conference agreed to this rule 2 years ago.