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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And you just moved here from HoCo? And you are already booted from RMSC and MSI! Nice work [/quote]

Yeah, I shouldn't complain, tall athletic kids have so many options.  Basketball, I wouldn't say they are better (I recall issues in high school) coaches but overall, there are more options.  Like I wouldn't even consider competitive swimming for my son.  Not that it isn't a good fitness activity, just it will cost so much less, and he'll get so much more out of it since it's a money sport for boys I view swimming, basketball, soccer to be equivalent for girls, basically just fun and fitness.  It would be cool if Kaitlin Clark could do a Michael Jordan on the WNBA and turn it into a money sport so that girls can have role models also.

Basketball coaches know how to develop tall athletes.  One of the comments above about tall athletes not having the skills is kind of funny.  I read coaching manuals for fun to learn about sports and kids and what not.  It's funny because my book on developing post players has sections on how to handle athletes that don't have the "complete package" of skills, which the book claims is more often the case than not.  They talk about what to do if they can't catch the ball, or can't jump don't have endurance etc.  Like my basketball coach said, there is spot on the team because you've got the thing we can't teach.  I know short parents say kids should have all the skills, but it isn't like tall kids aren't trying they are growing, somethings will just be harder for them to master, diving for example.  Swimming and soccer don't seem to have this philosophy, which is strange.  I can kind of understand it in soccer, height isn't as much of an advantage, but swimming what do these coaches know about talent anyway?  What a red flag.  I mean really, are you paying to be in the pool with the kid that isn't ever going anywhere or the next 6'1" Katie Ledecky or 6'4" Michael Phelps.

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So now you think they should have taken your kid just based on the fact that she’s tall for her age? [/quote]

I just don't think you understand what competitive swimming is.  The point is that other sports know about this problem and how to manage it, in soccer they kind of do the opposite because tall kids have an advantage early on, they tend to protect the smaller players that will eventually be more agile.  Gymnastics, I didn't even bother.

I tried to contact RMSC early on and explain the situation.  Tall athletic girl who was in lessons, but covid, I have doing pullups and inversions on still rings other activities etc., how do I get her on the team.  crickets...[/quote]

Here’s a tip! Let your daughter participate in an activity or sport that she enjoys. Why not try gymnastics or tumbling if she enjoys it?

OP, are you going to try to defund Harvard when she’s rejected? Btw, one of the top Rockville RMSC swimmers is headed to Harvard this year and is not that tall. He just loves what he does. [/quote]

I don't think Harvard is really analogous to this situation.  I mean when the Asians sued to get them to change their policies, they did though in some ways maybe it is analogous.  A) Harvard hasn't been accepting the best and brightest in a while B) They've cooked up a cockamamie system to replace it.  C) Many of the ivies quit taking standardized test scores(Though this turned out to be a mistake and they didn't get the best talent, and went back to standardized tests.)

So, there may be some analogies.  However, this is why I have to start young explaining these things, people create pseudo tests to give the impression of superiority or talent.  She brought home all A's and qualified for the gifted program.  I explained to her when I was a kid how I had higher test scores, but the counselor's son was in my class and there was an odd, weighted AP class CAD drafting offered only in the freshman year that I didn't take and he graduated above me.  Was he really that much smarter?  I did very well on the ACT aced the math section but couldn't crack that English section.  Later on it was shown to be biased, which was a bit of an epiphany for me.  When I took the GRE(standardized test for admissions to grad school) I placed 90+ percentile in reading both math, and 80th percentile in English amongst students that were high performers.

So, Yeah I start explaining these things early.  Though IMO yead Harvard should receive much less government funding and we shouldn't be paying student loans off anyway.  Then again, I had a free-ride so life was easy, no real competition to speak of at the little mid-west poor boys MIT.  Because intelligence is more than just passing a test for some social standard.  I would love if she could somehow be involved in athletics someday, because these academics aren't very good and don't really lead to much in the way of opportunity even if Harvard.[/quote]

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