Roy Munson
Posting with one hand
Musta really wanted you out of the house.
pretty much...
Musta really wanted you out of the house.
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.
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.
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.
both my boys have June birthdays so I guess I could hold them back. No chance though, I'm not "that parent" that wants to live through my kids via sports. They'll have to suck it up, and always be a tad younger than their classmates.
Me too...birfday in 3 days.both my boys have June birthdays so I guess I could hold them back. No chance though, I'm not "that parent" that wants to live through my kids via sports. They'll have to suck it up, and always be a tad younger than their classmates.
I'm not sure about your link between wanting to give your kids a leg up in sports and living through your kids via sports.
Its also something that could lead to your kid getting a scholarship somewhere and saving your a shit ton of money on tuition. I still think its a little silly, but I see why some people might choose to go that route without thinking that some parents are trying to re-live their childhood through their kids.
Giving them a leg up by keeping them out of school is ridiculous, and is about as backwards of thinking as it gets. Of course its the parents living through their kids, you think a 5yr old says "hey dad, keep me out of school so I can abuse little kids on the court".
because 5 year olds should decide when they go to school.
That's when you'd hold them back, right before kindergarten. Unless you're a real POS parent and wait until they're already in school.
yeah, but it isn't up to them...
yeah, that was my point.
That's when you'd hold them back, right before kindergarten. Unless you're a real POS parent and wait until they're already in school.
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.
Yeah I think that was the right call by you/school system. I have no issue with holding your children back for social, maturity, educational reasons. I just feel like holding them back for athletic reasons is a little uncle ricoish.Sometimes you don't get to choose. My middle child had a mid-August birthday, when we moved to Indiana, cut off for school was Aug 1. So she had to repeat kindergarten...she was not happy about it at the time, but I think it worked out fine. She wound up doing dual enrollment in high school and graduated from college when she was 21, so I think it worked out fine.
Yeah I think that was the right call by you/school system. I have no issue with holding your children back for social, maturity, educational reasons. I just feel like holding them back for athletic reasons is a little uncle ricoish.