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[quote=Anonymous]The eternal question! In my experience, tryouts can often be a public exercise that accompanies a private, pre-determined plan. It's not that different than external searches for corporate roles when there's already an internal candidate who has been identified and will likely be hired. It doesn't make it feel better, though. My child is currently in the middle of an extended "tryout" that involves objective testing and results. But the reality is that they build in enough loopholes that they will put athletes wherever they want to put them based on personal preferences, favoritism, keeping siblings happy, etc. It isn't fair or aboveboard even though it looks like it is on paper, and we try to let that child know that from the beginning. We have also experienced what you're referencing in one of my other kid's sports (gymnastics). She won everything in the most important competition two years in a row, but the coaches seem to only remember the meet early in the season when she had to scratch an event. Somehow they've decided she's just not good and that's that. She has had teammates who are wildly inconsistent, fall at every meet, or don't work hard at practice, but it doesn't matter because they're the favorites of the year. Unfortunately it is good practice for real life. The working world basically operates just like travel/elite/HS sports tryouts. Sometimes you have a good, fair boss, but most of the time you're at the whims of someone who can't see the big picture and is a terrible judge of people.[/quote]
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