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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don't realize what a waste of time HS & club sports are until you step away. HS sports back in my day were not 2.5 hours per day 5-6 days per week. Parents were not spending entire weekends at tournaments in depressing locations eating bad food. The majority of HS players will not be recruited. Your child is better off doing rec and spending time on studies and other interests. [/quote]

I don’t see a problem with school sports.  It’s right after school, same location, and parents don’t have to drive them to games.

Club sports are more like cheerleading and dance competition groups.  They spend whole weekends at a chain hotel to perform their five minute routine.   The amount of time spent on traveling to locations, waiting around, hotel, traveling home is way too much to justify.  There needs to be more local programs.  A lot of rec programs stop at middle school.  [/quote]

High school sports practices and games are not right after school, LOL. Gym and field use is scheduled in shifts amongst all the teams. Your kid could have the 7:30-9:30 practice time slot and you are driving back and forth. [/quote]

That’s too bad your school needs to do that.  We have massive amounts of fields so we don’t need to do that.  Along with basketball, cheerleading, volleyball and others are indoors it works out well.   I picked my daughter at 6 pm most days. [b]Same with my son who was in the musicals and plays.[/b]  [/quote]

Any male who is doing musicals and plays is never going to get cut or not get a part. And for too many years girls were not given the opportunity to play sports. However, now schools must balance the number of boys and girls participating in high school sports. Since football teams tend to have very large rosters of 50-60 per team so if a school has frosh/soph, jv, and varsity football that could be 150 boys at a school playing football. Even if there are only two levels of football that is over 100 boys. So you need enough girl sports at multiple levels (varsity, jv, etc)  to compensate for that and you can't offer that many levels of boy sports. So it can be hard for a boy to make a team in high school [/quote]

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