Reclassing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the top privates all do this--they have kids repeat 9th or 10th. STA and Sidwell do it frequently. Many of these kids are not paying full tuition (or any tuition) so the money is not an issue.

Why do they do this, for athletes?

-to catch kids up academically. 9th grade is easier the second time around
-also--to create bigger, better athletes.

There's really no down side for the school.

I work at a HS and the down side that I am beginning to see is 20 year old GROWN MEN mingling in halls with 14 year old freshman. The gap between freshmen and seniors has always been stark, but reclassing is making it worse.
We also have a 16 yo freshman that is struggling to connect with his peers in class. It's already sensitive time for adolescents and reclassing for some is just not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the top privates all do this--they have kids repeat 9th or 10th. STA and Sidwell do it frequently. Many of these kids are not paying full tuition (or any tuition) so the money is not an issue.

Why do they do this, for athletes?

-to catch kids up academically. 9th grade is easier the second time around
-also--to create bigger, better athletes.

There's really no down side for the school.

I work at a HS and the down side that I am beginning to see is 20 year old GROWN MEN mingling in halls with 14 year old freshman. The gap between freshmen and seniors has always been stark, but reclassing is making it worse.
We also have a 16 yo freshman that is struggling to connect with his peers in class. It's already sensitive time for adolescents and reclassing for some is just not worth it.

I have never seen a kid reclass for athletic reasons such that they are 3 years older. The 20 year old thing is something that you made up in your head.

[Anonymous]

This happens all the time in area especially for male athletes. Gives them an extra year for physical and athletic growth. The ones we know who have done it all ended up recruited D1. Obviously very committed to their sport to begin with - already good before the reclass and the extra year have them the needed boost.

For non athletes I have seen this when the parent pushed them ahead in Kindergarten and later on the child is struggling academically or socially. Of
course some kids are the youngest in the class and do fine. Every child is different but personal experience observing kids at school is smart kids pushed ahead do fine academically but often struggle socially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This happens all the time in area especially for male athletes. Gives them an extra year for physical and athletic growth. The ones we know who have done it all ended up recruited D1. Obviously very committed to their sport to begin with - already good before the reclass and the extra year have them the needed boost.

For non athletes I have seen this when the parent pushed them ahead in Kindergarten and later on the child is struggling academically or socially. Of
course some kids are the youngest in the class and do fine. Every child is different but personal experience observing kids at school is smart kids pushed ahead do fine academically but often struggle socially.

Girls are doing it too

[Anonymous]

Is reclassing a nicer way to say staying back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is reclassing a nicer way to say staying back?

Being left back implies no choice & failing. Reclassing is a deliberate strategy to hack the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is reclassing a nicer way to say staying back?

Being left back implies no choice & failing. Reclassing is a deliberate strategy to hack the system.

Also known as red-shirting.

But “re-classing” is…classier, don’t you think?

[Anonymous]

Reclassing is for athletics. I never heard of it until this year as we had a number of football players reclass as juniors to get another year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reclassing is for athletics. I never heard of it until this year as we had a number of football players reclass as juniors to get another year.

I don't see how this would work for football, unless maybe it's a covid thing. You get 4 years of eligibility in high school, and high school football is where kids get the most visibility.

Reclassing for lacrosse, where club is the primary place kids get visibility, makes more sense, but even then most lacrosse players that I know do it in middle school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reclassing is for athletics. I never heard of it until this year as we had a number of football players reclass as juniors to get another year.

I don't see how this would work for football, unless maybe it's a covid thing. You get 4 years of eligibility in high school, and high school football is where kids get the most visibility.

Reclassing for lacrosse, where club is the primary place kids get visibility, makes more sense, but even then most lacrosse players that I know do it in middle school.

In this area, you just need to switch conferences. So if you do 3 years at a private and don't get any offers, you switch to public or another private conference and you can repeat your Junior year for another 2 years of eliibility.

[Anonymous]

I met a number of 15 year old 8th graders at Landon who’d been reclassed when they came in from public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the top privates all do this--they have kids repeat 9th or 10th. STA and Sidwell do it frequently. Many of these kids are not paying full tuition (or any tuition) so the money is not an issue.

Why do they do this, for athletes?

-to catch kids up academically. 9th grade is easier the second time around
-also--to create bigger, better athletes.

There's really no down side for the school.

I work at a HS and the down side that I am beginning to see is 20 year old GROWN MEN mingling in halls with 14 year old freshman. The gap between freshmen and seniors has always been stark, but reclassing is making it worse.
We also have a 16 yo freshman that is struggling to connect with his peers in class. It's already sensitive time for adolescents and reclassing for some is just not worth it.

I have never seen a kid reclass for athletic reasons such that they are 3 years older. The 20 year old thing is something that you made up in your head.

Do you work in schools? It's absolutely a thing. Parents are redshirting their kids in elementary school due to immaturity concerns, but then once they reclass- boom you run the risk of turning 20 in April of your senior year. It's rare, but absolutely happens.

[Anonymous]

When I was in High School, there were some seniors who turned 19 in August of that year so by June when we graduated - they were basically 20 and I remember they were over it and it was awkward because they were a year into adulthood and in a child centric environment. Unless your kid is already young for the grade, I wouldn't do it.

[Anonymous]

I mean in the UK they do a gap year and this is not that different from doing a gap year before college. More people should IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean in the UK they do a gap year and this is not that different from doing a gap year before college. More people should IMO.

Of course it’s different. A gap year in the UK and elsewhere is out in the world with other adults, traveling, working, etc. Another year of HS as a 19 or 20 yr old? In the same building as the 14 yr old freshman and subject to the same rules? Not the same at all. Nice try though.