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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]I've never heard of a 16 year old senior, that's very odd to me. Kids turn 17 as juniors.

Regardless, its within the VHSL rules to reclass up until the age cutoff so anyone can choose to do it, if they want to. [/quote]

I turned 17 in October my senior year.[/quote]
I turned 17 November 17th of my senior year and still played D1 football.

I can understand if a kid has a Nov, Dec, October birthday making them 17 their senior year reclassing for sports, but I think it’s f’d up that kids beyond that have to just to compete.  However, we’ve gotten to that point. [/quote]

Whatever circumstances put you at turning 17, instead of 18, your senior year are a thing of the past. The vast majority of kids turn 18 sometime between the summer before and the summer after their senior year, making someone who turns 19 during that time period a year older, but very rarely two years older. Don’t mistake your very rare situation as the norm; it’s the exception.[/quote]

It’s so easy to tell you lead a privileged life…

There are plenty of kids in this exact situation, just not in wealthy districts/private schools. An extra year of preschool isn’t something everyone can easily afford. Many lower income families are eager to get their kids as soon as possible.[/quote]

Locally, the cutoff is Sept 30. So no matter how desperately poor, almost everyone who starts school on time is going to be 17 as seniors. [/quote]

NYC public schools have 12/31 cutoff. [/quote]
So a kid who starts school in NYC on time with a 12/31 birthday that decides to play football and never reclasses to gain an athletic advantage will be playing against your 19 year olds [/quote]
Yeah that kid will be 16, playing against 19 year old men.[/quote]

I am from NY and had the fall birthday, but female.  Yes, I started as 16 and turned 17 my senior year.

You are taking the two extremes and discussing the 16 yo seniors with fall birthdays before they turn 17 and assuming they move here.  And then talking about the 19 yo seniors after they turn 19. They won’t start the year at 19.  Why are spending so much time worrying about this?  I played a varsity sport. It was mixed grade levels. My age was not a concern.  Those 16 yo will reclass or they won’t.   Hs teams have all ages anyway. [/quote]
They are talking about it because a kid who starts school when they are supposed to and does what he is supposed to can be a 16 year old senior.  It’s not fair that he has to face 19 year old men in the same situation.

When this 16 year old was a freshman, he was 13 playing football.  It’s actually unsafe for him to be facing 19 year old men on the football field.

The system is being exploited.  If a player is that good, he shouldn’t need to do all the reclassing.[/quote]

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