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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your time would be much better spent on SAT tutoring than traveling around playing games. [/quote]

To what end? SAT tutoring won't teach my kid sportsmanship. It won't teach her to keep her head up high walking off the field after striking out and turn around a cheer on a teammate's home run. It will teach her that hard work pays off, but in a different way than spending a few hours in the batting cage and seeing her next at-bat not be a strikeout. It won't teach her that everybody goes through slumps and progress isn't linear but it's still progress. It won't give her a sense of shared joy with teammates in a team accomplishment. It might teach time management, but not in the same way having practices and games and homework and studying and instrument practice all together will. There are so many people on this thread talking about the benefits of sports just in-and-of-themselves for life skills, but everyone ignores them and assumes the sports are about scholarships and admission advantages. It's wild.

-rec family who doesn't judge travel families or think they all expect their kids to play D1 and earn back all those travel fees[/quote]

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