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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there will be continued ripple effects for a while. For summer swimming, there are fewer swimmers in the 9-12yr old ages because they were 4-7 during lockdown and missed critical years to be on mini/development teams. The current 4th grade is much smaller than normal and the current 3rd grade has more redshirted kids.

There are certain sports and activities that have a 1-3 year window that kids commonly enter the sport. When kids miss those years, it’s only those with motivated parents or a sibling in the activity who join.

The same follows then for traditions if you don’t have one set of volunteers training the next group. No one knows that the junior parents host the spaghetti dinner before senior night if it didn’t happen for 3 years for example. [/quote]
These are good points. For sports, if you step off the development path for a few years, it's hard to return which may lead to donut holes in some activities . And, if an activity fades out, the parent re-starting it not only has to run it but re-create the original infrastructure, potentially without veteran guidance, which is tough.[/quote]

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