[YOURTIGERBAIT]

You, Tigerbait made the assumption that "mountain folk" needed holdbacks due to educational purposes. You have an opinion WHICH you have stated nonstop for the last 3 pages of posts. We ALL know what you believe and what your thoughts are on this topic. Please, make no more assumptions towards us mountain people.... I myself am one and am VERY proud of it. I do know proper grammar and use capitalization in a proficient way due to my "mountain" education. Either keep this on topic, dicuss this with an open mind, value each opinion and kindly agree to disagree with others or.........this one is going to be a thing of the past.

Just for the sake of topic discussion:
I do think that holdbacks for certain reasons are very much a needed thing. Boys for one do not mature as quickly as girls, both mentally and physically. Don't get me wrong, I feel that a young lady/man with a 4.0 GPA and straight distinguished on their CATS tests should NOT be held back UNLESS they are either too young or had to miss a lot of school due to an illness or accident. I know homebound schooling is an option BUT the children who are placed on homebound miss a LOT of essential things during a school year. Social interaction is imperative to the maturity of young teens. I could have held my own son back due to his age. He will graduate at 17 years of age. That is young!! He is NOT as mature as the older children in his class either BUT he is very intelligent and is very active in sports. WHY should I punish him just because of his birthdate? Anyway, I hope this gets the thread back on topic.

Excellent post .