[Diogenes]

How much taxpayer money gets wasted per year to hold back kids for no academic reason? If the school doesn't feel your child needs to be held back, then the parents should pay for the extra year of school, not the public. (Especially in regards to the "free babysitter" comment.) Schools are for education, not for sports. Sports, like any other extra-curricular activities, are meant to enrich the academic environment, not eclipse it. We have lost sight of this as a state and a country in many instances.