Originally Posted by Anonymous
Kids learn better by being pushed? Someone watched too much Doogie Howser, M.D. growing up.

Kids aren't robots, they're all different. Who are you to say what age is appropriate any more than the government. Let schools and parents decide.

The egos on this site are something else.

No the point was that the idea of "hold backs" for sports is the antithesis of how most parents view academics which is they want their kids to be ahead of what grade level they are in (ie. a kid in seventh grade taking math that is for ninth graders) and most parents are pushing their kids in higher level academic classes that are above their age/grade level.

It's a bizarre practice to hold kids back to compete against younger kids-most parents would not want their seventh grader sitting in a sixth grade level math class but maybe since you are so dense you would want your kid in that class. But here we are....