Moving students around the school system has been applied in primary and secondary education since formalized schools were created. In modern education, the common and familiar terms are skipping, held back, or left back. Initially, the determination of whether a student would be moved up a grade or designated to repeat a grade was chiefly based on attendance or measures of their academic proficiency in multiple areas.

Today, the term used most often to describe the process is reclassification, and it is no longer chiefly grounded in academics. Reclassification is now entrenched in elementary, middle school, and high school athletics.

Students and parents are choosing this course of action to improve youths’ athletic opportunities and prospects, and financial underpinnings by receiving a

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