[Pick6]

The strongest argument for holding children back, boys specificly, is not athletic, its academic. Staisticly speaking, boys are not ready for college at 17 years of age. This population is dropping out or failing to enroll in college at an alarming rate, and the trend is worsening.

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles...ation.aspx

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201...en-behind/

In my view, many of the atletic and academic issues relating to delayed maturation in males could be allviated by raising the minimum primary school enrollment age.

The big problem here is that public schools are so starved for state revenue, they pressure parents to enroll ASAP when it is in the childs interest to delay enrollment. Public schools are putting their finaancial concerns ahead of the welfare of their students. They are very aware of the problems associated with thier early enrollment practices, but they don't change their policies.