With the amount of private school kids in this area, not reasonable to expect parents to monitor the age of every kid on their team or in their league. You are going to sign up for your grade, with your classmates, and within the rules. I encourage really good players between 5th-8th grade to play up a year to get better and be challenged, but would not expect every pre-first kid to automatically sign up for one year ahead in these leagues - does not make sense. There was always a 2-year spread in rec ball anyway, so other than parents finding something to complain about and latch onto, the competition we are seeing in the grade based system is not unreasonable.
