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I agree with raider on this........i enjoy sports as much as the next guy and have played on all levels as well. I cant believe this thread has gotten this much attention. The only place this affects anybody is in middle school......are parents so caught up in ms athletics that they cant see past their own nose. If you want your child to excel on the field thats great. There isn't a parent alive that doesn't want that. If you have to hold back in order to do that then so be it. Khsaa again simply says you cant play again in the same grade.....their not saying you cant hold a child back. I stated on another post that in a few years kids will have to be 6 before they can enter kindergarten anyway. This will stop a lot of the holdback issue i think. Keep them back as long as you want. The playing field levels out in high school and very few of these kids will ever see the sidelines of a college playing field and those that do even less of them will go any further than that.. If they do thats great......get education paid for any way you can. Its outrageous belive me!! But the grades come along with it. Focus on the classroom though........coaches and recruiters love to see athletes that can split scholarship money between academics and athletics. Plus they never worry about those kids in the classroom. You folks need to get over this and move on.......keep them at home as long as possible. But dont use athletics as a means to do that or think that an extra season in the "7th" grade is going to determine whether they play college athletics or not. Hold them back and let them play travel ball or something against kids that are there own age and ability level and gain some real experience.