True/False: Is it pathetic for a parent of a hs athlete..

[theboardref]

to let their child be held back just to 'further develop' athletically? This being if a child has the grades to move on but intentionally not moving up a grade.

I say true. Think it is absolutely apauling to allow this. A child making straight A's and being held back for athletics (I have seen this first hand). A school down the road actually brags about having 'true freshman'. This practice is embarrassing, congrats on your two years held back child on making all state.

 

[4down20]

Is that legal?

Sounds like it shouldn't be.

 

[006]

It's lame to hold them back if they are already enrolled in school. I have no issues with parents not sending their kids to kindergarten until they turn 6 though, especially if they have a summer or spring birthday that would automatically make them the youngest kids int their grade.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

My parents held me back. I took senior year twice despite a 3.4 gpa because they wanted me to bang more freshmen.

 

[4down20]

It's lame to hold them back if they are already enrolled in school. I have no issues with parents not sending their kids to kindergarten until they turn 6 though, especially if they have a summer or spring birthday that would automatically make them the youngest kids int their grade.

I started school a year early and it always sucked. I didn't turn 16 until my Jr year, everyone else did it freshman or sophmore year.

Sucked even more when it came to football.

 

[TheDayMan]

Is that legal?

Sounds like it shouldn't be.

It's not here, I'm pretty sure.

 

[TheDayMan]

It's not here, I'm pretty sure.

I guess maybe you could get away with it as long as it happens before high school, but you'd have to come up with some kind of story for the reason you want your kid held back. Districts get/lose funding based on this shit, nowhere is just gonna let a kid repeat a grade so he can get bigger and stronger for football next year.

 

[7Samurai13]

My parents held me back. I took senior year twice despite a 3.4 gpa because they wanted me to bang more freshmen.

More freshmen? so you were banging less than zero before your second senior year?

 

[006]

I started school a year early and it always sucked. I didn't turn 16 until my Jr year, everyone else did it freshman or sophmore year.

Sucked even more when it came to football.

That's how my best buddy was growing up. I'm sure it was a big disadvantage athletically, but would equally suck as bad having to wait to take girls out.

 

[cerealboi]

My parents held me back. I took senior year twice despite a 3.4 gpa because they wanted me to bang more freshmen.

i.e. commit more statutory r*pe

 

[Roy Munson]

I started school a year early and it always sucked. I didn't turn 16 until my Jr year, everyone else did it freshman or sophmore year.

Sucked even more when it came to football.

I have a late November birthday, which was way past the cutoff, but my parents signed some waiver and I had to take a test to get admitted early.

I was always the youngest kid in my class. I was still 16 when I played my last HS football game... playing against kids who were 18 and 19.

 

[cerealboi]

Think there was a Real Sports about this . . . also it apparently works. See Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers and the section about Canadian youth hockey. Kids born around the time of the youth hockey cut off ended up doing better in hockey and advancing further because their increased maturity and additional practice made them stand out from their peers. The additional maturity/skills gets them special attention from the coaches and which gets them additional practice and coaching which in turn makes them better than their peers.

 

[Across The Field]

I have a late November birthday, which was way past the cutoff, but my parents signed some waiver and I had to take a test to get admitted early.

I was always the youngest kid in my class. I was still 16 when I played my last HS football game... playing against kids who were 18 and 19.

19 in the fall of their senior year? That's extremely old.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

More freshmen? so you were banging less than zero before your second senior year?

No. You suck at math, dickhead.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

i.e. commit more statutory r*pe

It's the one thing that I still love about high school girls; I keep getting older, but they stay the same age!

<flips quarter to Wooderson>

Seriously though, your post sounds like something the boyfriends of the freshmen would say.

 

[Roy Munson]

19 in the fall of their senior year? That's extremely old.

Yeah, it happened pretty often when we would play schools closer to Philly.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

19 in the fall of their senior year? That's extremely old.

Psssst, ATF, he's from the Philly area.

 

[7Samurai13]

No. You suck at math, dickhead.

Math is about the only thing I am good at, much to my wife's dismay.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Yeah, it happened pretty often when we would play schools closer to Philly.

Fuck. Ninja'd by the very guy that was supposed to be the butt of my joke.

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Math is about the only thing I am good at, much to my wife's dismay.

Yeah, that's what she told me.