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[quote=Anonymous]When I was in 7th grade, I played on my middle school basketball team.  While it was a small independent school where all the kids played on a team, the coach gave most practice reps and almost all of the game playing time to the 5 starters, and maybe 3-4 alternates (out of a team of around 15 kids).  At that age and skill level, and in a school league where wins and losses were completely meaningless, this offended my very strong sense of what a middle school sports team [i]should [/i]be: an opportunity for [i]every [/i]kid on the team to learn the fundamentals of the sport and to compete.  My parents did not intervene on my behalf.  Rather, with my parents' implicit and teammates' explicit support, I went directly to the coach and demanded more equal practice and game time for every player.  It was a terrifying experience for a 12 year old kid to go toe to toe with a coach three times my age, but that in itself was a valuable learning experience.  I realize that parents want to grease the wheels for their kids, but the best lesson you can teach your kids is how to solve their own problems.[/quote]

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