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[quote=Anonymous]My sweet, nice, kind, adorable 9 year old loves playing lacrosse.  We were recently at a tournament with his whole team and it is truly a great group of boys and parents.  I love how supportive and inclusive and kind these little guys are of/to each other.  My son loves the game and loves his team and is showing potential.

When I hear these stories about the "culture" of Lax players at highschools and colleges it just freaks me out.  I know all the boys who play lax, even the best players, can not all be bad, immoral a-holes.  Read any newspaper these days however and it really sounds like they are equivalent of the a$$hat football players of Hollywood movies from the 80s, a stereotype I thought had kind of been exposed, ridiculced and mostly excised.  Why is this "type" now showing up again but as the Lax players?

Even if I firmly believe that my son would be the exception, I wouldn't want him around other males with those attitudes, lack of morales, and sense of entitlement, regardless of how kind and  "grounded" he is/will be.  I would hate to tell him he can't play lacrosse anymore but if the sport really is dominated by such a cesspit of immorale jerks, I will.  Opinions?  Predictions?  Will it change due to all the bad press?  Are there any schools where the lax players are the "nice" boys, the real scholar-athletes?[/quote]

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