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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not one mention of football.[/quote]

Few pursue that sport in educated urban areas. It's a terribly ugly and dangerous sport. We neither watch it, nor allow our DCs to play it. We have zero friends with kids in football. You have to be huge physically too (usually overweight) and willing to damage your brain. [/quote]

This is the absolute dumbest thing I've ever read.  As if the academically elite private schools don't have football programs.

Nobody has mentioned football in this thread because generally, the people that enroll their kids in youth football don't regret.  They are by and large, good programs[/quote]

My 10 year old DS is at an academically elite private school in an area where football is huge, and yes, while his school has football, we don't allow him to play it. PP is correct that it's a dangerous sport and I don't understand parents who are willing to risk their child's neurological development. As far as it being a a good program? No. It's not. These are kids who don't need athletic scholarships to go to college, so really all their doing is risking their kids' health for nothing.[/quote]

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