Rich DC lacrosse parents let kids repeat grades
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Anonymous
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Start holding back Aiden, Baiden, Caiden, and Daiden now for future lacrosse dominance.
From the article: "It used to be if you got held back, it was a scarlet letter, something you would never want," one Bethesda lacrosse parent told me. "Now, it's being done as a badge of honor." http://deadspin.com/why-rich-lacrosse-parents-are-making-their-kids-repeat-1570381983 |
Anonymous
| I call it dumbing down your kid. |
Anonymous
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Ewwww.
Signed, A normal lacrosse parent |
Anonymous
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Insanity. I know at least four boys who left our DC private in 6th grade and repeated the grade at St. Albans, Landon and Prep.
"Institutionalized cheating" is a very accurate term for this. |
Anonymous
Really, a 6th grader at Prep? Interesting. |
Anonymous
You seem to be caught in your own cheating. |
Anonymous
? |
Anonymous
| What child would allow this - I can't imagine anything more humiliating than being held back in 6th grade. |
Anonymous
| If all your child's got in terms of potential is there ability to play Lacrosse, I can see making this choice. I mean if they aren't going to do well academically and are going to need the sport to get then into a good college, well you gotta do what you gotta do. |
Anonymous
A child who thinks lacrosse is more important than school. |
Anonymous
| This article is a joke. Redshirting is common at all area privates for boys -- the schools encourage it and it isn't for lacrosse. However, it isn't occurring at the middle school level, it occurs at the kindergarten level. Notice that the article never mentions when the "redshirting" actually occurs, it just (falsely) implies that it is middle or high school. |
Anonymous
If LAX is your world and your best friends are doing it too- AND your parents want you to. Why not? |
Anonymous
| Does lacrosse have age cutoffs? In soccer you play in your age group, grade in school doesn't matter (can play up). |
Anonymous
| Sure, make em more dominant on the field and off the field for date raping 14 yo classmates when they are 17. Sick. |
Anonymous
| It's happening at SSSAS too. They have a JK, which just encourages it. |