2026 Boys - Madlax or DCE?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes the perfect time to reclass is when switching schools. There is no harm in giving your kid an extra year to mature, academically, physically, and emotionally. The physical maturity may all even out by late high school, but the academic and emotional maturity can help for years to come and even translate into a more mature and successful college experience. Signed, parent who wish we had done this for our very bright but emotionally immature sophomore.

Let's be frank. What teenager is not somewhat immature? That's called being a teenager. And when I see how some of these holdbacks at private schools behave, I really wonder if they are so much more mature. (I do chuckle every time I see a freshman driving.) Also, the academic, emotional, etc. argument is baloney. The foundation for the reason is simply to be bigger than your competitors in the recruiting process. That other stuff people mention is just to rationalize it in their minds.

I was not an athlete, but I was definitely not emotionally ready for college at 18. I should have done "something else" for a few years first.

That said, if the main reason is to be bigger than your competitors (and have an extra year of lacrosse experience), there's nothing wrong with that.

no objection about taking a gap year to prepare for the rigors of college for folks that are marginal but it's lame to be playing high school sports as an overaged player/adult.

Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

Just to clarify, most of the boys who were recruited from Baltimore independents (can’t speak to the Baltimore catholic schools) or are current high schoolers have never repeated a grade, but I am not denying there are some.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

So you know about one class at one school. That does not allow you to know that “At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

So you know about one class at one school. That does not allow you to know that “At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age.”

Lol, you aren’t from Baltimore, there is a reason we call it smalltimore. Know tons of kids at Gilman, Saint Pauls, Mcdonogh, BL and Loyola. Grad years 2019 all the way down to 2026. Why would you assume I just have one kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

So you know about one class at one school. That does not allow you to know that “At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age.”

Lol, you aren’t from Baltimore, there is a reason we call it smalltimore. Know tons of kids at Gilman, Saint Pauls, Mcdonogh, BL and Loyola. Grad years 2019 all the way down to 2026. Why would you assume I just have one kid?

I've lived in the same neighborhood for 16 years and my kids have been in the same school cohort for 14 years and I've moved in the same parent social circles all that time, and nevertheless I would not state with confidence that I know the birth year of all my kid's classmates. There is one "reclass" who was born in August but held off on kindergarten for a year. I don't know this information because I don't care. I'm really skeptical that you should be as confident about this as you claim to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

So you know about one class at one school. That does not allow you to know that “At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age.”

Lol, you aren’t from Baltimore, there is a reason we call it smalltimore. Know tons of kids at Gilman, Saint Pauls, Mcdonogh, BL and Loyola. Grad years 2019 all the way down to 2026. Why would you assume I just have one kid?

I've lived in the same neighborhood for 16 years and my kids have been in the same school cohort for 14 years and I've moved in the same parent social circles all that time, and nevertheless I would not state with confidence that I know the birth year of all my kid's classmates. There is one "reclass" who was born in August but held off on kindergarten for a year. I don't know this information because I don't care. I'm really skeptical that you should be as confident about this as you claim to be.

I don’t claim to know anyone’s birth year and I don’t even which clubs these kids play for,I just know who stayed with their class and who “reclassed” in middle or high school, and who is playing in college or publicly announced a verbal commitment. It’s a big deal and the kids talk about it. You wouldn’t notice whether a kid’s friend is suddenly in a different grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Exactly how I feel. And living in Baltimore with kids of high school age in local private schools, it isn’t nearly as common as one poster would have us believe. At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age. Maybe it’s different at the parochial schools.

How could you possibly know this? Somehow you know the DOB of all your kids classmates? I have no idea how old the kids on my son's club team actually are. Some of them are bigger than others, but for all I know, they are the same age but hit the growth spurt sooner (it happens).

Because these boys have been attending the same private schools as my children or other family members since preschool and never repeated a grade.

So you know about one class at one school. That does not allow you to know that “At least at the independent A conference MIAA schools, the majority of lacrosse recruits are the correct age.”

Lol, you aren’t from Baltimore, there is a reason we call it smalltimore. Know tons of kids at Gilman, Saint Pauls, Mcdonogh, BL and Loyola. Grad years 2019 all the way down to 2026. Why would you assume I just have one kid?

I've lived in the same neighborhood for 16 years and my kids have been in the same school cohort for 14 years and I've moved in the same parent social circles all that time, and nevertheless I would not state with confidence that I know the birth year of all my kid's classmates. There is one "reclass" who was born in August but held off on kindergarten for a year. I don't know this information because I don't care. I'm really skeptical that you should be as confident about this as you claim to be.

Also, what you describe is not a reclass, it’s redshirting. Those are different things.

[Anonymous]

So redshirting is when you hold off kindergarten and reclass is when you repeat a grade a some
Point kindergarten or later?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So redshirting is when you hold off kindergarten and reclass is when you repeat a grade a some
Point kindergarten or later?

Reclass is when a kid chooses to repeat in middle or high school specifically to change their recruiting grad year for a sport, typically 8th or 9th grade, but sometimes other years.

[Anonymous]

Holdback = delayed entry into kindergarten (i.e born in August)
Reclass = repeat a grade (I.e. failed school, or transitioning from public to private school)
Redshirt= is a college kid who is not good enough or injured to play in games but still is on team. Athlete is able to practice with team but not play games, redshirt preserves a year or NCAA eligibility since you are only allowed 4 years. I guess redshirts plan to do more than 4 years of college or play in grad school.

[Anonymous]

'Reclass' sounds so nice. It should be called 'dropback,' i.e. 'My kid is a dropback so he can be the biggest freshman and drive his teammates to the game."

[Anonymous]

You wouldn’t notice whether a kid’s friend is suddenly in a different grade?

No, probably not, since it would likely happen before kindergarten or after 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You wouldn’t notice whether a kid’s friend is suddenly in a different grade?

No, probably not, since it would likely happen before kindergarten or after 8th grade.

Before kindergarten is not a reclass.