[JD If U Please]

This is from the KHSAA Handbook:
Do parents have options relative to holding students
back in grade eight?
Kentucky Department of Education regulations place the
responsibility for promotion or retention of a student on
school personnel and not parents. Once “promoted” from
the eighth grade, a student’s four consecutive calendar
years (8 semesters) of athletic eligibility begins.
A student repeating the eighth grade may not represent
a high school team at any level. In addition, if parents
retain a student in the eighth grade after the student
has been promoted, then that student will lose his or her
senior year of eligibility.

Meaning if he walks though graduation with his 8th grade class and then a parent decides to retain the child he will lose eligibility.

If a principle documents that the parents have come to him on more than one occasion, the child will never be promoted from the 8th grade.