re: Kids getting held back for sports

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I just think it’s crazy to delay your kids life a year for some high school glory. I’m all for holding kids back who need social and emotional development, I think a lot of boys could benefit in grade school from starting school a year later. But holding a kid back who doesn’t need it specifically to help them athletically is some selfish arse parenting

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100% to everything you said! My son with a February birthday, so nowhere near the youngest in his class, would have greatly benefitted by waiting a year to start school. Years ago, they had a "Transition" class that some kids went to between Kindergarten and 1st that was for kids lacking maturity and needing just a bit more time, struggling a little. They eliminated that a few years before he started school. It was in the 80s and early 90s. It went due to funding and also due to the trend of mainstreaming everything rather than separating kids to help them (like inclusion for special ed now). It would have helped his academics a lot, but also sports. It's been fine for him as an adult, but school would have been a lot easier. Other friends of his that were held back for academic reasons in K or 1st...2 of them also got football scholarships. Who knows if they would have if they weren't held back. I don't think they were better because of physical maturity, but mental maturity.

My daughter (no pics), has an early Sept bday. She was older than most of her class. In Tx, you must be 5 on 9/1 to start kindergarten. She breezed through everything in school. She also was tiny, so the extra year helped her as well as she was still the smallest in her class. Was it easy because she was older? Or was she just smarter and better at school?

Only trashy people do this, hold your kid back in kindergarten for book learning so you don’t look so obvious down the road baws

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shite annoys me man. i catch so much shite from other parents for being too strict because for my kids....make a B for the year and you dont play....period

im not saying that is right for every kid. but all 3 of my kids scored gifted...im not cutting them slack just because the kids on their sports teams are not held to a higher standard.

its especially important in non football sports to make amazing grades because it opens so many other options and opportunities up to you. pretty good ball player but amazing student....yea the opportunities that open up in the form of schools are pretty amazing. Especially if you are a white male...its stupid important if you have big dreams for life in general(not talking dreams in sports).

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Lots of the time, kids live up to expectations. If yours are not very high, that's all they do. You're 100% right. It does them no favors to be easy on them. The world will be harder.

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yea its funny how that works, especially if you start young. its annoying when other adults get mad over expectations you put on your own child that has nothing to do with them. Get called all kinds of names similar to the travel ball threads here or worse. Well way worse cause this is in person not some anon person on the internet.

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I’ll admit I was a little sad that my son didn’t take any of the offers he had but it wasn’t about me. I knew if really wanted to chase his dream he would have, and could have.

I had to accept his decision to go with the education route instead of chasing a baseball career that probably wouldn’t have happened.

He still works out with his pals that are chasing that dream, so he’s still active, playing golf, taking infield and BP

We’ve gone to more LSU baseball games this past season including driving up to Omaha for the championship series, which was incredibly special for us.

He’s played all over the country including a week in Cooperstown when he was 13.

These memories we will always remember and was worth every penny

Every year there are a ton of kids that are getting drafted and signing scholarships that are old for their grade. There’s a college baseball rule that allows those kids to get drafted after 2 years instead of 3 if they turn 21 before August 1st. Calvin Ridley was already 20 when he enrolled at Bama…

You just sound like a moron.

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That was the rule for the last 30 years although that rule changed effective July 1st.

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wait that rule changed? when? and what is it? got a link?

kids i went to school with did this and i'm not especially young.

a few did it in the extremely small town i am from and that's even more embarrassing because that town and area as a whole very rarely produces scholarship college athletes(and when it happens, it almost always a girl). basically just delaying the kid's life so he could average a few more points per game in gyms that college scouts have literally never visited.

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Why would a parent

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Because they are deluded idiots.

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Because they are deluded idiots.

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actually they arent. you and i might not agree with it but if you look at the stats....it works

nobody bitches about gavin guidry or other kids just like that, but sure like to bitch on here.