And it just happens that your precious "babies" are bigger, stronger and faster. Oh....I forgot, OLDER. But it is all about their academic progress. Funny how that works.
yes, we time them in the 40 foot crawl, see who can roll over in their cribs the fastest and who can hold their head up the longest.
post your town coward.
I bet if you asked the parents of the holdbacks if sports was the reason or at least a big factor in their decision to hold their kid back and they were being honest they would tell you that it was. Maybe it's not technically cheating because the school district allows parents to do that but it's still an unfair advantage and that's why everyone is calling BS on this academic development spin. And it may be the new reality but doesn't mean it's right.
Ok, so my son is an October baby and we did NOT hold him back because at the time he was ready for school and we followed our school age guidelines. Now that he is playing lax (because really all other sports go by age) if we were to do it all again knowing what we know now we might have held him and it has nothing to do with academics.(He does well in school) It is a huge advantage when the kids are a year older playing in the younger grades but if you listen to parents when they talk about those "older babies" they do have an asterisk that will forever follow them on the playing fields.....
well said. my son is playing at the right age/grade. he is on the older end of the grade. he is in the 98th percentile in height for his age at the last checkup. we play teams where half the team is taller, sometimes a head taller. that doesn't add up.
