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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO the underlying mechanism too few facilities, gyms, fields, courts, pools, etc.  In my area there are several "great" schools that have graduating classes of six hundred plus students three times the size of my graduating class.

The manifestation is that parents employ hired guns to train their kids to ensure that the kids will have spots.  These hired guns use all kinds of techniques to ensure parents get what they pay for including, teaching unsafe or dirty play.  These hired guns often monopolize public resources.  Contracting soccer fields near schools or contracting pools and control both the access to teams and training reducing the game to a pay for play scheme.

The unsuspecting kids from families that aren't familiar with a sport trying to have fun are literally driven off the field.[/quote]

I should add that the private monopolization of public resources in this manner exacerbates the problem because many in the public stop seeing the value.  EG schools forgo having sports programs, stop building new fields, close public pools etc.[/quote]

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