In terms of holdbacks, you are right. You can't repeat grades in the public school systems because you feel like it, you repeat because you flunked a grade. You won't see private schools complaining that people will pay $30K tuition a year to them for four or five years depending on 8th or 9th grades repeated. That is good for business if you are an MIAA or IAC prep school in Maryland. The basic thing is people will pay $120K - $150K for a prep school to give their kids a better chance to get a lacrosse scholarship worth $5K - $20K a year for four years. Instead of mocking the kids, we should be laughing at the financial stupidity of the parents. I feel like fool enough paying $300 a day for lacrosse at showcases or prospect days. Paying $300 a day to a college program for a sign up prospect day doesn't sound to me like the college program recruiting my son, it sounds a lot more like a money grab. The king money grab is full paying customers at MD prep schools.