Originally Posted by Anonymous
Kids repeating a grade before going to an IAC school for 9th grade is close to a given these days. The IAC has a league rule stating a kid can only play 4 years, so that pushes it younger. Unfair to single out any one...Bullis, Landon, Mater Dei, etc all have the same families going through for the same reasons. Paint it all with a mop.

The funniest thing is a lot of these kids wind up needing an additional PG year at a boarding school in order to cajole a college coach to take them. Business is very good for expensive prep schools these days.

Can we say that at least these kids are getting lots of high quality education?