[Wildcat18]

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?

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.