[Orange Blaze]

I talked with a friend today that said Raceland had about 30 some kids 7th grade thru 11th grade use this rule to repeat their current grade level.
I’m not sure how much of that is truth or hear say. But, I would say that job is a little uncomfortable right now with Paintsville winning state.

A significant part of our football team has hold backs from a few years ago when many of the 6th grade players stayed behind so this really wouldn’t surprise me.  

Also something no one really talks about is gender discrepancy.  Though it may not fully be the case it seems like we mostly hear about male athletes taking advantage of the rule and not much about girls.  When it is all said and done and you look at the final numbers across the state I wouldn’t be surprised to see this rule being skewed more towards boys staying behind at the high school and middle school levels than girls.