ECNL moving to school year part 2

[Anonymous]

Can I ask a question that I’m sure most here will think is dumb. My kids are ULittle still. But their club is switching to “grade” as well. I believe the cutoff will be 9/1. There are many kids at my kids school who were redshirted for K. So for example a June 2015 kid who is in 4th now instead of 5th. Will that June 2015 kid play with the other 4th graders (even though he is 3 months too old to be in 4th grade by standard rules) or will he play with the 5th graders, where he should have been to start with, but was held back academically?

Basically, if they are going by grade, will redshirted kids be with their correct grade (if they’d started on time) or their redshirted grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I ask a question that I’m sure most here will think is dumb. My kids are ULittle still. But their club is switching to “grade” as well. I believe the cutoff will be 9/1. There are many kids at my kids school who were redshirted for K. So for example a June 2015 kid who is in 4th now instead of 5th. Will that June 2015 kid play with the other 4th graders (even though he is 3 months too old to be in 4th grade by standard rules) or will he play with the 5th graders, where he should have been to start with, but was held back academically?

Basically, if they are going by grade, will redshirted kids be with their correct grade (if they’d started on time) or their redshirted grade.

If your kids are playing rec, or for some club that is running and in-house league (like ours does for junior academy) then no one here will have any idea what your club is planning, and honestly they can probably do whatever they want.

However, it looks like all sanctioned leagues in 26/27 will have rules next year that define age groups based off an 8/1 birthdate, that do not in any way consider grade. People here are talking about corner cases like ECNL showcases etc but you can ignore all that.

[Anonymous]

What would be the incentive for a kid to play with the SY team that is one grade level below their GY if they will be forced to play on the their GY team at showcases? Trying to find playing time on their Grad year team will be pretty challenging.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What would be the incentive for a kid to play with the SY team that is one grade level below their GY if they will be forced to play on the their GY team at showcases? Trying to find playing time on their Grad year team will be pretty challenging.

Talk to the biobanding players 3 years in a row.