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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WHAT’S the POINT of all this?? Unless you’re truly an exceptional athlete, it will have a minimal impact on college admissions. Meanwhile, if all the travel ball crap hurts your grades, it will be counter productive.  So I don’t get it — what’s the objective here? [/quote]

Our child will not be a college player. Why do we do this (not DC):

1.  He’s privileged and academically gifted. Sports are one of the few areas where he really has to work hard to stay in life to stay on the top level team.

2.  Kids don’t play outside as much these days.  The alternative is probably video games or texting. Practicing 90 minutes three nights a week and playing in tournaments is better use of time.

3.  He goes to a small, academically rigorous school that will take him through high school. Half his class would rather be on the robotics team rather than on the basketball court.  He’ll have the chance to play as much as he wants in high school. This is part of his skills development.  He also gets exposed to kids who he would not necessarily cross paths with.

4.  [b]He loves basketball[/b]. [/quote]

For us, this is the only “point”.  Our kids loves his sports.  He is passionate about them, he is good at them, and he loves to play and he loves to compete.  Allowing him to engage in his passion for as long as he possibly can IS the end in and of itself.

Maybe he’ll play in college.  Maybe he’ll go pro!  Who the heck knows when they’re 14?  But I literally DO NOT CARE if he ever plays past high school.  It’s what he loves to do NOW.

(And allow me to get a dig in here as well: many kids don’t NEED years of tutoring or SAT prep to do well academically.  Of course we’re not the type of parents who would ground our kids for “only” getting a 1400.  Just like some of you can’t understand wanting to play a sport at the highest level one can, some of us don’t understand this T20 or bust mentality.)[/quote]

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