Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Reclassifying is not breaking a single rule. Some families do it because their son isn't doing well academically. Some do it for maturity/emotional reasons. Some do it purely for an athletic benefit.

Get over it. If you had your way, there would be a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior lacrosse team. Nobody cares about this except Bizaaro Strong Island Internet tough guys.


Mom here on LI. I am not over it and never will be.

It is true what has been written about in history. You raise your children differently in the south.

Up here, on LI, we raise our children to work hard in school, practice, train and respect their coaches and teammates.

We do not need to cheat to give our children an advantage.

Continue to have luncheons, tea parties, socials, BBQ's with your buddies and your wives and keep telling yourselves what you are doing to your sons is OK with the rest of the country.

That way you can sleep at night.

Guaranteed when your sons move up here to the big city, after sj fisishes JR. College, he will be embarrassed to tell his associates he was 16 years old the day he stepped on his HS lacrosse field as a freshman.


Reclassifying is only a very temporary advantage, then the real world comes crashing down and then what do you do as a parent? Kids need to learn how to over come adversity, deal with difficult situations and work on their own to succeed. Mom and Dad manipulating reality, if only temporarily, is a sad lesson to teach a child as they mature. Forget all of the excuses, reclassifying is pathetic and even worse are the programs that don't even reclassify. They just promise the entire team will PG and play down against younger competition (see Edge Lacrosse et al). That's even worse.