Holdbacks and bigger kids are always going to be there - you can't ban them from lacrosse and playing at their grade level. A better solution to even things out would be to give smaller kids the option to play back a grade level like they do in another contact sport -- football. That way a parent who is concerned about their childs safety has a choice of what level his kid plays at rather than being forced to play against bigger kids. It would be very easy to institute some weight guidelines for playbacks at each grade level.
Why punish the kids who are on age and did not hold back? The ones ruining the sport are the ones manipulating the rules by playing with younger kids. Ridiculous idea to further the agenda of the holdbacks when what they are doing is wrong. Just have the holdbacks play with their own age and with the grade they should be and then nobody has to be forced to play up and nobody is allowed to play down. After all, if they are only holding back for academics then they should have no issue staying with their proper age group club team. Let the schools that create the problem worry about them playing the other holdbacks between. MIAA schools.
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