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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see this dynamic on DD’s travel soccer team also.  In this case, the moms all play tennis together at  Washington Golf and use that as a reason to not expand the carpool to some families. Maybe the logistics of playing doubles and soccer carpools are real. I think it is more a point of pride to be able exclude others.[/quote]

Holy crap.  So relieved left Arlington.
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Ditto. This kind of behavior is really shockingly prevalent north of Lee Highway.[/quote]

You don't know all the facts. My sister's DC was on a travel team in a McLean type of area in Metro NY, but the coach recruited a couple of lower class kids "on scholarship". The one kid's house was in another school district in so-called "affordable housing", but was on the way to the practice field.

The mother asked my sister about joining the carpool, and my sister said no because there just wasn't room and it wasn't convenient. My sister came off as racist, but really she was just protecting DC. If the other family had entered the carpool, DC would have been riding in an old Ford Gran Torino station wagon!!! With the wood paneling, and the backwards-facing "third seat".

Meanwhile these kids would have been dragging their muddy boots and their lice-infested hair into luxury SUVs and minivans. Imagine the squeegee people and the panhandlers that would have come out to people in these vehicles.

The two kids are good players, but they haven't fit in. One has a single mother who was a waitress and on some sort of welfare, the other's Dad is a janitor and the mother works in a school cafeteria. When the other kids are talking about a ski vacation or two weeks in Costa Rica, these two feel ridiculous talking about their day at Six Flags, or somebody's quincera in a public park.

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