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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School year increases participation at the youngest ages, which increases the quantity and quality of players later. School year also eliminates trapped players in the MS/HS and HS/college transitions. It was a shortsighted switch to BY and it should be corrected. It will be a headache to correct, but it will be good for players (trapped players) and good for the system in the long run. [/quote]

No it is not an issue. It is not worth the effort for few the “trapped” players. Go play rec.[/quote]

Why are there so few trapped players? Oh, because they all drop out and stop playing.....[/quote]
And there will still be trapped players with SY.[/quote]
Since you are so knowledgeable please list all the school districts that begin the school year before 8/1. [/quote]

My son is an August birthday in a state where the enrollment cutoff is September 1st.  He'll go from playing with his grade level to playing with the class behind him who he has no connection to.[/quote]

Same here. Its so odd to me that this seems like the better solution. It just leaves a different set of kids trapped.[/quote]

Nobody is trapped if they can play with their grade. Right now Fall birthday kids are not allowed to play with their correct grade so they’re trapped. With the change nobody will be trapped.[/quote]

On BY there was no "play with your correct grade" it was just birth year, so obviously mixed grades. Now anyone born in August or September is placed with a lower grade, not their correct grade. How is this better?[/quote]

Because they don't have to be placed with the lower grade.  My October 2014 son in 4th grade *cannot* play with the kids in his grade who are almost entirely 2015s.  He *must* play with 5th graders.  The trap is that when his teammates all play high school when he's in 8th grade he *cannot* play down with the 8th graders.

SY is a better (at least for trapped players) because the fall birthday kids in an SY scheme have options. They even have part time options, for example my October 2014 son could lets say, actually make the team up, the one he's on now and stay with them, but then when they all go to high school and he isn't, he could play that season down with the 15s, in that way SY completely eliminates the trapped problem, so why not do it?

The key here is whether kids are being forced or not.  Now clubs may only offer fall birthday kids  a team down, so it might not feel like options,  and thats the club's choice, but what club you play for is your choice! [/quote]

But Aug and Sept birthdays would have to play up to be kept with their grade.[/quote]

Yes, the proposed rules are designed to *allow* kids to play with their grade.  No set of rules will guarantee that every kid can *make* their desired team with their grade.  [/quote]

I'm not sure why this is so hard for everyone to grasp since it keeps coming up again and again, but thanks for explaining it clearly. [/quote]

Its hard to grasp because its not a clearly better system. Its still kind of messed up and confusing and puts a lot of kids already in the system in a weird position. And for kids moving forward they would like default to playing with the grade below them in the u little rec teams, which is a direct contradiction to all of the "but now she can play with her friends" crying. It still leaves a chunk of kids that wont.[/quote]

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