Originally Posted by Anonymous
Great post except for the finale. The minority of American clubs and players play down or PG. Therefore it is far from the "American way" as you said.

The vast majority of us play our kids on or above the appropriate age group for reasons that mirror your thoughts exactly.

Thank you for shining some light on how the majority of Canadian parents feel about the issue of playing down. Good day.


Trying to keep the civility in this commentary, there is an overwhelming majority of Maryland prep school kids who have repeated a middle school year. Quite honestly, it is the reason for the proliferation of private school lacrosse into the newer prep programs and beyond the old guard. It is basically the place to go for families who can afford 5 years of private school tuitions to execute a lacrosse strategy. If you have the money and see it as a path into a college of the kid's choice, you do it. If you believe that there is not an overwhelming majority of hold back kids in the MD / DMV prep school leagues you are not correctly informed.

But to get this argument back on the rails, I think the main point on this board is not on the high school fields but on the youth lacrosse fields. It is horrible that there are grade based teams between 4th and 8th grade now for the more affluent to game the age equity in club lacrosse. Just make it age based. The best players will rise up anyways, and at least it will be fair for all the kids. [/quote]

When you have the head of 3D lacrosse recommending "re-classification: also know as "holding back your completely healthy and well adjusted child for an extra year of schooling to pursue his/her lacrosse career" to all of their students you can see why there is a problem here. It's just plain wrong!!