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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just want my kid to play a team sport in high school and that’s starting to feel like a big maybe given the competition in our area. He’s an above average athlete who works hard and puts in extra reps outside of team but isn’t hyper driven in the sense that he has no expectations around being recruited to play in college. So, despite years of playing multiple sports at a fairly demanding level, love for the game, natural athleticism, and coachability he’s a bubble player and may find himself “retired” from his favorite sport(s) at 14. His athletic female friends are having far more success playing into HS than many of his male friends given the sheer numbers. [/quote]

[b]The number of girls and boys playing is the same thanks to title IX.[/b] It's not great for a boy who doesn't play football because football teams are needlessly and laughably large. If you're in FCPS, have him try volleyball. Our school was desperate enough that the boys team was no cut this year [/quote]

The number actually playing is not the same as the number who *want* to play.[/quote]

Go to girls volleyball tryouts and talk about how easy it is to make a girls team. Both genders have teams with hard cuts and both have teams that are easy to make [/quote]

+100

Our HS had to cut 60 girls from flag football.

Similar numbers for girls soccer.

People thinking that making a girls team is easy just don't know what they are talking about.  It may differ in sport by sport at different schools.  But its not like girls can just sign up and play.  They have to endure tryouts and cuts like the boys

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Calm down.  Literally nobody said (or even implied) that making a girls team is easy.  It was merely stated that more boys WANT to play sports than girls.  So Title IX, which is great in many ways, will inevitably lead to far MORE boys being disappointed than girls.[/quote]

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