the 9/1 cutoff is ideal kids to compete against kids their own age and in their own grade, it creates as level of a plying field as you can have. The only kids that would be affected by this (not playing with kids their age and grade) are the kids that were held back or went to pre-first.
Maybe where you live. By being myopic in your choice of dates you are eliminating any chance of of any real progress. Move the date three or four months and you get a chance of enough clubs and parents buying in to the rule to make it happen. The best example is the Crabs going to the World Series of Lacrosse which has a May cutoff.
How is that eliminating progress? Going by the school birthday cutoff you are ensuring kids are only competing against their piers, rather than kids playing down and creating an unfair and unsafe atmosphere for the kids on the field. This also allows more kids the opportunity to play on some more select club teams
9/1 isn't the cutoff everywhere. When you try to make up a rule nationally that only makes sense where you live than the rule loses its legitimacy. If you use the [lacrosse]'s or World Series date than enough momentum can be developed to actually get something done. One reason the 9/1 date hasn't worked is that too many boys get pushed up unnecessarily.
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