Are the girls given the choice to play with their graduation year or are they forced to play by the new guidelines?
They will need to play with their age or up. A younger girl can play up in an older age group, but not down in age. Age groups are determined by 9/1-8/31 of given years. So for instance, generally speaking, if a girl was born between 9/1/00 and 8/31/01, they "should be" in 9th grade this spring (or 2019 grad year). I they r, they will stay w the same aged girls. But if instead, their birthday is in this range, but they are a 2020, they will now be playing w a lot more 2019s, because that is their general age cohort.
And that's generous. My daughter is born in late Sept. 2000 and is, age appropriately, a 10th grader. there are a lot of kids in our town who are born earlier in 2000, but are 8th graders.
A kid born before Sept 2000 in 8th grade is double hold back in almost every state in the country. That's unreal. I think a few states use Aug 1 as the cutoff, so an Aug 2000 would be a single hold back in those places, but that kid would have already been one of the older kids in the "correct" grade. Hope the holdback was academic.
