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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You are really stretching here and clearly don't know what you're talking about. Some kids have natural talent, even without money and years of experience. Some kids have parents who pay to get them on teams and play for years but wouldn't make a team with relatively better talent."
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True statement.  True for lots of things besides sports, as well.  Dance lessons for DD were only for fun (good thing, too--absolutely no talent), but some parents were dead serious about dance, music lessons may help--but, if child does not have the ear, they are not going to be on Broadway, art lessons, etc.  I've seen parents in sports and the arts who were convinced their kids were prodigies and would be famous.  My kids are now grown, and I cannot think of a one of those who succeeded in those fields.

The worst, though, was basketball and baseball.  So many were convinced their kids would make varsity the freshman year--and, didn't even make the freshman team.  There's a lot of talent out there--but, there is always someone bigger, faster, stronger.[/quote]

Exactly. And it's not even certain the travel kids would want to play. My kid won't even play a pick up game at recess!.[/quote]

At our FCPS HS, many A-team travel kids were cut for the freshman team last year. Kids who have been playing YEARS were cut.

Regarding Basketball and Baseball, neither of which our child plays, parents have been grooming their kid for HS since early ES.  Travel leagues that feed into the HS and get notice of the coaches. Very good players did not make the basketball team b/c they were in the "wrong" travel leagues. It's nuts. That said, I think MS sports -or not having it, that is- is a bad thing. There is always going to be kids not good enough for something (and in MS I was atrocious at everything but by HS knew my strengths and went on to one sport plus other activities I ended up liking). By MS, they need to know how to cope with that.[/quote]

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