Originally Posted by Anonymous
You are incorrect. Many private leagues have rules about transfers and/or kids repeating grades. Many only allow kids to play 4 seasons of a sport (and some don't differentiate between JV and Varsity).

Some do not allow kids to repeat a grade at all. Some only allow transfers for kids of a certain grade and/or age.

Not everyone fits in your bucket.


I am correct as far as every single private league is concerned. Some do have a rule stating you can only play a high school sport 4 times. That is exactly why the 8th grade is most popular for kids in the IAC. If you play 9th grade at a public, you'd have 3 years left to play at an IAC school and some kids do sit out 9th grade reclassify year in order to do that. Then there is the rule you can't repeat a grade in the same league or lose a year to transfer in the same league, but nothing prevents a kid from transferring from an IAC to a WCAC or to go to a boarding school, which also happens a lot. The IAC has a no transfer rule for upperclass grades, but again nothing prevents movement between privates in any year between private schools in different leagues. The only IAC hard rule is you can't be 20 years old. There is an age cap. This isn't a blast on the IAC, same liberal maneuvers can be the case for an MIAA kid who has appetites to reclassify.

And this is the classic diversion away from the central question: how can it be argued that club or rec lacrosse is a scholastic sport? It has absolutely nothing to do with schools, private schools, private or public school leagues in any way whatsoever.

So again, is there a single reason to deem youth club or rec lacrosse a scholastic sport?