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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you need to make sense of it, exactly?

It's clear you wouldn't live this way - which is fine - and that your friend has already made up her mind. That's also fine.[/quote]
But why? What is it about sports? If it was literally any other thing, I feel like parents would justify a reason why their child would be ok missing it. People justify their kids missing an entire week of school to take a vacation, eleven ways to Sunday, but can’t justify letting little Billy miss his peewee baseball championship game? Why? He’s six, he will be ok and forget all about it by the time he’s having an ice cream cone on the beach. [/quote]

Because [b]they[/b] value what the "world series" game means for them and their kid. Because they view it as launching him to the next place in what they hope will be his baseball career. Because they love the team experience. Because the people they've met on the sidelines are their friends. Because the people on the diamond are his friends. Because they want the bragging rights of saying their kid was an all-star/in the tournament.

There are good and bad reasons but at the end of the day it's not your kid, not your family, so it doesn't matter.

We have a kid at our ES who has played multiple instruments at Carnagie Hall multiple times. I'm sure that kid's parents would cancel vacation for that. Same with, say, an elite chess player. Or the National Spelling Bee. So I disagree with your premise that "literally any other thing" people would do vacation instead.[/quote]

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