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[quote=Anonymous]We had one kid on my sons team who always didn't feel well or his foot hurt or something was wrong. The kid didn't want to play but the parents wanted him there. The Coach didn't play the kid and the parents finally dropped the sport after 2 years.

In baseball, we had a kid on the team who clearly didn't want to play but Mom swore he loved it. The kid got into it with another kid on a regular basis, we had to separate the kids. He would walk up to bat and swing the bat with one hand. He would walk to the base. Zero interest in playing.

There are kids whose parents really want them to be active or involved in a team sport and place their kids in rec sports. The kid doesn't want to be there and the Coaches and other parents all realize that but the parents just don't want to hear it.

There are parents who register their kid to play a rec sport for the first time in MS and expect that the coach is going to teach their kid how to play the sport and get them up to speed on the skills. These are also parents who wonder why their kid doesn't get as much playing time. Yes, rec sports are for kids to learn and have fun but most MS kids want to win and giving equal playing time to the kid who cannot dribble the soccer ball and doesn't know where to be on defense hurts the team. The parents, and the kid, need to understand that they are behind and it will take time to catch up. The Coach will get them playing time but it might not be equal at the beginning because no one on the team wants to lose so that DC gets equal playing time when while not having the skills or knowing the game.

On the other side of things, there are the coaches hell bent on winning at every level of rec sports who don't do a good job rotating kids and don't care if every kid plays. Those are equally frustrating if for different reasons. [/quote]

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