To the gentleman who "knows" the Stanwicks well...Wells will be 24 at graduation, Steele was 23...most students graduate at 21 or 22
Age, it's just a number.
That is funny. Is Shack also old for his class? That whole Boys Latin stuff with the jokes about a student parking lot on the middle school side of the street are pretty funny too. It is amazing to me how much being a sissy is celebrated in Baltimore. Crabs and holdbacks, that is what they do best.
The biggest sissies are on this site. Dad's whining and complaining that little junior might play against kids a few months older than there little boy. Get out of your kids way and let him grow up.
I will take the bait. I watched on the sidelines a weekend ago as my son who is in the sixth grade and plays up on a 6th / 7th grade team (and no, it is not a Baltimore team) was mauled by a team of 8th graders playing down. It was great sport (for the older boys who were 4 to 6 inches taller and 30 to 40 pounds heavier). My mistake was allowing my son to play up when I thought it was only kids a year older that he would be playing against rather that boys two and three years older. The issue is not boys "a few months older", but boys a few years older. If this makes me a "sissy" and a "whiner" and being concerned about "little junior" then that's fine, that's my role. By the way, I think I am doing just fine trying to help my son "grow up". It would be nice, however, if he was allowed to do so without parents and club owners insisting on playing kids down to get size and age advantage.
No disputing the honesty in your post. It is our job to do what we can to keep our kids safe first. That is getting close to impossible in the middle school grades now. The most toxic combo is the 6th & 7th grade blended teams or the 7th and 8th grade blended teams. One of my sons was on a team like that because the club didn't want to cut kids who didn't make the 7th or 8th grade "A" team. It was well meaning, but the club wound up apologizing for how gross it was in some tournaments seeing repeat 8th graders against the smallest 7th graders on my son's team trying to hold on. At bottom it was sad to witness and we even had one tournament where the referee said he felt dirty having to ref a game like that.
This is all real funny anonymous tough guy daddy talk from the defenders of holding back now on a chat board, but it won't be funny at all when there is a crumpled 12 year old 7th grader on the field after getting plowed by a 15 year old 8th grader. Anyone who thinks this validates their overaged kids or defends it is just plainly wrong.
