Have noticed an inverse correlation between school quality and parent behavior during sports

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Anonymous wrote:I've noticed the opposite especially in things like travel baseball which is filled with entitled rich families.

They can't stand to lose and especially can't stand to lose to people who they perceive to spend less on baseball and who's lives don't revolve around it.

And I hate to bring up politics but the entitled rich families often vote for republicans!

My experience in DC travel baseball is the opposite. Pretentious left leaning are some of the worst.

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Oh, it’s everywhere, regardless of race or class. The commonality is: sports parents. Nowhere else do parents allow themselves and each other license to behave so poorly in front their own children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely the opposite. The wealthier the parents, the more entitled and obnoxious. No question after 16 years of travel / school sports.

Same here.

I've even heard from some of them that highschool sports don't matter and the best players play club ball. Lol. They can't handle little Johnny not being the center of attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely the opposite. The wealthier the parents, the more entitled and obnoxious. No question after 16 years of travel / school sports.

Same here.

I've even heard from some of them that highschool sports don't matter and the best players play club ball. Lol. They can't handle little Johnny not being the center of attention.

Depends on the sport.

For games like football and basketball, high school sports is still pretty important.

For soccer, high school teams don't matter. There is another system in place for identifying the best soccer talent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, it’s everywhere, regardless of race or class. The commonality is: sports parents. Nowhere else do parents allow themselves and each other license to behave so poorly in front their own children.

I would qualify it as sports parents who weren't successful at sports themselves. Former pros or college players are usually very chill about the youth sports experience.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids play endless sports both in their private school leagues and on travel teams that are non school and geographically focused and it never fails that the more emotional and fired up parents are about kids sports, the worse the school/ school district. This is especially true of non diverse parents. Anyone else noticed this.
Sat in the bleachers today with parents from a school who were acting like total babies and when I went home and looked at where the school ranked, yet again hypothesis born out.

I really thought you were going to say the opposite, as that’s what I’ve observed.

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There are terrible parents everywhere. The middle tier is usually fairly decent, but at either extreme is where I find it to be bad, both rich and poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely the opposite. The wealthier the parents, the more entitled and obnoxious. No question after 16 years of travel / school sports.

Same here.

I've even heard from some of them that highschool sports don't matter and the best players play club ball. Lol. They can't handle little Johnny not being the center of attention.

Depends on the sport.

For games like football and basketball, high school sports is still pretty important.

For soccer, high school teams don't matter. There is another system in place for identifying the best soccer talent.

High school is important in basketball only because the top AAU teams are coached by HS coaches and those players are on the team.

You no longer have decent random public school kids with maybe a D1 player…all the top players get poached to privates or move inbound to a public basketball powerhouse (which aren’t inner city teams anymore).