2021 teams that have private school kids are loaded with kids reclassed/heldback/ or did prefirst. Fact of life now.
Repeating 8th grade is a popular one.
Kids can either go into high school with poor grades and less mature or they can take a year to get their grades up and mature a little. It's the last chance to do this. Repeating 9th grade doesnt help anything because you've lost a year of eligibility and the grades are on your transcript.
You are confusing two subjects that should have nothing to do with each other. What a parent does for his child to get an education is his right and no one has a problem with that. But your choices for your child's education does not give you special privileges in youth sports others dont have.
Youth Sports not High School has always been about even playing field and development of players.
Having select kids that for whatever reason were held back being able to play down, while same exact age kids who parents decided to keep them on grade dont, Just doesnt seem right or in the spirit of Youth Sports.
But we have a huge amount of private school parents and now some public school parents that find nothing wrong with this. There is an advantage to be gained with having your child one of the oldest. Private Schools in MD are the ultimate goal of Lacrosse players and they ate the reason we have this situation
