[Wildcat18]

Do you understand that there are twice as many school districts not in the KYMSFA as there are in it? The main issue here was school districts were not following requirements that KDE already had in place at the lower levels before this was put through, the issue was KDE didnt have any way to enforce schools to follow these requirements. Now they do. You would be surprised at how many school districts I have met with that have said, we cant/choose not to do these things to save $$$ or just the hassell.

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.