[oneijoe]

It amazing how some are so up in arms about this. Maybe you should be up in arms about the education your child is getting. After all it's the education that will get them though life not a game they play in high school or middle school.

Absolutely true... :Thumbs:

But keeping it solely within the realm of athletics, there's also a question of fairness which holding back a student violates. If a good 6th grade 11 y/o ballplayer is held back a year (for athletic "excellence" or whatever) and competes the following year as a 12 y/o, a non-level playing field is created since this 12 y/o (in the fast growing years) is now playing against smaller 11 y/o kids.

Everything shouldn't revolve around varsity sports. Allowing the hold back of kids for athletic reasons is simply not fair to the -competing- kids in 6th grade who are progressing normally.



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