2021 teams that have private school kids are loaded with kids reclassed/heldback/ or did prefirst. Fact of life now.
Repeating 8th grade is a popular one.
Kids can either go into high school with poor grades and less mature or they can take a year to get their grades up and mature a little. It's the last chance to do this. Repeating 9th grade doesnt help anything because you've lost a year of eligibility and the grades are on your transcript.
You are confusing two subjects that should have nothing to do with each other. What a parent does for his child to get an education is his right and no one has a problem with that. But your choices for your child's education does not give you special privileges in youth sports others dont have.
Youth Sports not High School has always been about even playing field and development of players.
Having select kids that for whatever reason were held back being able to play down, while same exact age kids who parents decided to keep them on grade dont, Just doesnt seem right or in the spirit of Youth Sports.
But we have a huge amount of private school parents and now some public school parents that find nothing wrong with this. There is an advantage to be gained with having your child one of the oldest. Private Schools in MD are the ultimate goal of Lacrosse players and they ate the reason we have this situation
Actually, the confusion is on your end. Private sports club league rules have nothing to do with education choices that parents make, and grade-based leagues have nothing to do with age. If you would like to talk about rec leagues, a wider age gap exists in each group, so your argument doesn't work there either.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Strawman argument Every other year in the old rec model, the player was with his age group and with the oldest age group.There were no select kids that always got to be the oldest the entire time they are in youth sports as now >>>>>>>>>>>>>
There was never an exact birth year league for lacrosse.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Go to USL and see the guideline as they have been for years>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
To fixate on a kid that repeats 8th grade, or whatever grade, when you paid to be in the grade-based league is ignorant.
<<<<<<<< Who is fixating?? Only one fixating is the apologist you are for letting select kids always be the oldest in youth sports>>>>>>>>>
You can protest by not joining grade-based leagues. Aside from kids that repeat in MS, I assume you think pre-first private school kids are doing something wrong too? Really, at 6 years old, I don't think there is some nefarious plot by parents, looking way ahead, before some even play a particular sport, to game a private club league some years down the road.
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Another ignorant Strawman , Its your child hold him back twice? Once again when did holding your child back in kindergarten give you special rights in youth sports??? >>>>>>>>>>>
