There are kids on my son's 2017 team who were 2016's that reclassified. The problems I have as a parent are: 1. What happened to the term "held back" or "repeating a grade"? That's what we called it when I grew up. Did Dr. Phil come up with the term "reclassified" to make the self esteem issues a bit more managed? For the self esteem of the parents I mean. 2. Most of the reclassified kids in MD on these clubs aren't getting a second chance to be showcased, they are actually screwing the 14 year old out of his only chance unless his parents join this mentality. So you have a smart kid making good grades and having friends in his age peer group and you send him to a MD prep school to repeat 9th grade?!? 3. Most of the kids that reclassify aren't good enough anyways to attract attention from top schools anyways regardless of this repeating grades stuff.
