I would tend to agree with most but would like to add another comment. My son started kids wrestling at 10 years old,late by most standards. When he was a 7th grade student, we considered allowing him to skip the school program and focus on Kids but the then highschool coach brought up a good point. If some of my sons non wrestling friends see his success in the school program and follow him to the Kids program, the highschool program will be stronger in the future. We are a little different in that our middle school program ended the first week of December so he only missed a couple weeks of the Kids program.
No, the compitition is not as strong as in Kids but our middle school program was better these past 2 years and that should continue in highschool in the next few years.