[Cardfan1]

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.

Of all things our government wastes money in this is what we are going to complain about? How awful a kid stayed back an extra year of school because he/she wants to achieve at a higher level. Our government pours money down the drain every second for people who have ZERO ambition to better themselves, so I think we can handle the 2%,or less, of kids who stay back for any reason other than failing math.

Come on man!

In reality this rule shouldn't have been an issue until the kbe and khsaa starts to sponsor championships at the ms level. When they do that and teams don't have to count on volunteer organizations then they should step in with all of the rules the "level" competiton.