02-09-2018, 12:03 PM
(02-09-2018, 09:53 AM)stupac2 link Wrote:A lot of boys are held back for educational reasons. If he has a fall birthday it's probably that rather than sports.
My son has an October birthday and, at the time, would have been eligible for kindergarten when he was four-turning-five. His preschool teacher strongly recommended that we hold him back for social reasons--in fact, she recommended the same thing for the other fall birthday boys in his class. In any case, instead of being the youngest in his elementary school class, he's fourth-oldest, and it's definitely worked out for the better, IMO.
The sports leagues in which my son participates--Little League, club baseball, AYSO--set their divisions by age, not grade, even at the all-star level. Maybe it's different with football, though.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)