Originally Posted by Anonymous
MM income far exceeds 200k a year, closer to 1 million!!

Son #1 is a single holdback who graduated on age due to entering the school system one year early

Son # 2 is not a hold back at all and is also young for his grade.

Stop blaming clubs for holdback parents chose if their son is held back. Quite crying about it!’ Your complaint really isn’t about hold backs it’s about private schools which you envy to a point of detest . Don’t blame parents who choose to spend their money to help give their sons a leg up.

They’ll be great college players the minutes they step onto the UVA campus where their age will mean absolutely nothing.

Calm down there , #1 is a holdback, no big deal as most better MIAA players are. Hard to graduate on age when you are heldback. Starting school early and then heldback one year would have meant he was a on age during club and HS. Which he wasnt. My son played on one of his teams and he is a very good player.

Private schools are the main source of holdbacks. Prefirst classes are full every year because the boys and more and more girls cant keep up with kindergarten. I know, the MIAA schools are off the chart difficult, so they need it more than public school kids. But for some reason all those Honors/AP taking high SAT/ACT on age public school kids do fine in High School ? And many on age [Censored] school students go on to the same colleges as MIAA school students without being held back. This from a parent whose kid went to private K-12.