[Wildcat18]

KHSAA is not making money. They are not collecting dues from middle school. Some middle school programs were not recording heat index, player injury, reconditioning football equipment, let every Tom-Dick-and Harry coach without CPR, FIRST AID, and crime checks. The KYBOE was given no choice but to try to do something to protect the students. There were concerns from all over the state about student safety. That is why it has came to this. One day you might have children and understand why this came about.

Then the KYMSFA should have punished those particular schools who were not following the rules required. I know that our team dotted every "i" and crossed every "t" as far as the heat index, CPR, first aid, crime checks, physicals, etc. To me, the ones who followed these guidelines are the ones being punished by these newly implemented rules. The 6th and 7th graders right now who's parents were planning on retaining their children in the 7th and 8th grade respectively are screwed now because the rules will be implemented for the 2014-15 school year. The deadline for them to be retained this next year has already passed (based on our school district) and thanks to the KHSAA, those families are screwed out of having that opportunity at all. These rules should not have affected anyone currently in middle school and should have been implemented 3 years from the date they were passed, giving time for the current 6th grade class to get through middle school. I'm not against the new rules as people will hold their kids back in 5th grade like most do anyway...I'm against the timing that they will be implemented.