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In Floyd County if you are repeating a grade, you cannot play a sport at the same grade level twice. So if you repeat 7th grade and you played footbal the first year, you are out of football the second year. If you did not play football the first year in 7th grade, you can play the second year in 7th grade. And so on. The only way around it is to be examined by a psychologist/psyciatrist(sp?) and have them determine that you are not socially mature enough to go on. You have to prove that you are staying back for nonsport reasons. Of course, I guess if you want to stay back bad enough, there are Doctors out there willing to help you out. This is adopted Floyd County Board of Education Policy.

The Floyd County Middle School Boys BasketballTournament was placed on hold about 4 years ago for this reason. A court injunction was put in place. The tournament was held up for a week or so because of private school students who had supposedly been 4.0 students but were repeating a particular grade after transferring from public school to private school. The tournament resumed and I don't recall any of the players being determined ineligible that year.