Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
A august 2010 would be considered a holdback, even if they were august 29th. Which is the root of the whole issue. If they never allow kids who were held back at preschool to play with their classmates then they will not have a team or be asked to join an established team in 8th grade. Or whenever.

uhh what? Why wouldn't they have a team to play with?

They would just have to play with the kids one grade up because that's the right age.
When the kid asks why he can't play with the kids in his grade his parents will need to explain to him how they tried to game the system by having him play against younger kids and it worked for a while but now it backfired.

Saying that they wont have a team to play on is a lie.
US Soccer is birth year so teams are generally 2/3rd of kids in an older grade and 1/3rd in the next lower grade. Kids are resilient, they can play with other kids in a different grade! It does get messy when it's a mix of 8th and 9th but it's manageable.