[FootballFan1999]

They’ve already said the age requirements wouldn’t change. So you’d still have 19 year olds playing varsity football like has always happened.

You’re also not paying for kids to go to school another year, it’s been said the state wouldn’t give extra funding for those kids.

The majority of students who want out of high school will be, but the few that had their recruitment killed would love to have another shot on a normal year. I know multiple student athletes who are being effected currently and it’s costing them lots of scholarship money. If an extra year during a once and a lifetime situation is warranted and given I’m all for it. I don’t think it’ll pass, but due to the kids I know getting shafted I would love to see it passed because if it doesn’t they probably won’t be going to college.

Here is a copy of the Bill if anyone wants to read it.

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1 AN ACT relating to supplementary education and declaring an emergency.
2 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
3 Section 1. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on school operations and
4 student learning, notwithstanding any passing grades a high school student may receive
5 during the 2020-2021 school year, any student enrolled in a Kentucky public high school
6 during the 2020-2021 school year may request to use the 2021-2022 school year as a
7 supplemental school year to retake or supplement the courses the student has already
8 taken. A high school student enrolled in a Kentucky public high school in grade 12 during
9 the 2020-2021 school year may request the supplemental school year notwithstanding the
10 student satisfying state and district graduation requirements. A retaken course under this
11 section shall not count as an additional credit towards graduation unless the student failed
12 the original course. Retaking a course under this section shall count towards full-time
13 enrollment for the student. A student shall submit the request to the local board of
14 education by June 15, 2021. A local board of education shall not approve or reject
15 requests on an individual basis, but shall determine by June 30, 2021, whether the district
16 shall or shall not accept all requests.
17 Section 2. Any Kentucky nonpublic high school may allow a high school
18 student enrolled during the 2020-2021 school year to use the 2021-2022 school year as a
19 supplemental school year to retake or supplement the courses the student has already
20 taken.
21 Section 3. Notwithstanding any rule or regulation of the Kentucky Board of
22 Education or the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, but in compliance with
23 KRS 156.070(2)(f), if a member school provides evidence to the Kentucky High School
24 Athletic Association documenting a student as utilizing the 2021-2022 school year as a
25 supplemental school year under Section 1 of this Act at the member school, then the
26 student shall have five consecutive calendar years of eligibility from the date of first entry
27 into grade 9, and retaking courses pursuant to Section 1 of this Act shall not otherwise
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1 disqualify the student from eligibility. The Kentucky High School Athletic Association
2 may adopt rules, policies, and bylaws and promulgate administrative regulations
3 necessary to carry out this section.
4 Section 4. Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on education throughout
5 the Commonwealth has resulted in a critical need to provide supplemental education to
6 Kentucky's high school students, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act
7 takes effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor or upon its otherwise
8 becoming a law.

So FootballFan1999, could you please point me to the place where the law says anything at all about age requirements and the state not giving extra funding to pay for kids to repeat years?

Line 21 and 22. They must be in adherence to to KYBOE and KHSAA rules. Hence funding and age requirements.