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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you feel that it's OK to focus 90% of the course material to the smartest kids in the class, and only spend 70% as much time on the middle kids and 40% on the dumbest kids?

How about paying attention to the best looking kids 90% of the time and only focusing on the average kids 70% of the time and barely looking at the ugliest 40% of the time?

Let's extrapolate this and many things like it across their entire lives and see what kind of society we get...[/quote]

OP. No, I don't think its OK in a classroom to focus exclusively on the smarter kids. The weekly soccer game, however, isn't the only classroom, in this case. The main classroom is the weekly practices where we focus heavily on the newcomers to the game. Those kids that show up for our practices definitely show steady improvement. We have 3 coaches (1 head, 2 assistants) that work together with the kids, so they are getting a heck of a lot of attention. All of us have extensive soccer experience. All of us have coached many years. The better kids on our team have been with us for years, and I'd like to believe that the coaches on this team are responsible, at least in part, for their development into strong players.

In our weekly games, the kids don't like to lose. They want to win. If they truly didn't care about winning, I'd play the kids with equal minutes. But herein lies the tension: they want to win, and they also each want as many minutes as possible. This isn't possible. I cannot simultaneously (1) win games and (2) play all kids equal minutes. This isn't possible. I feel uneasy regardless of which approach I use. Losing badly doesn't feel right, nor does favoring the stronger players. But there isn't any middle ground. I can only do one or the other.[/quote]

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