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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on previous poster.  I have 3 very athletic kids in DC who have been on  years and years of school and travel teams in 3 sports and on almost every roster there have been kids chosen for political and/or social reasons over kids who are objectively more talented.  I mean, welcome to sports in DC.   It's a rare roster that doesn't ha r some element of this on it and it gets worse the higher you go in youth sports.  You're naive if you don't think so or don't see it.  [/quote]

I also fit your description. Travis politics is bit quite the same as public middle school. They selected the best kids, period. If PP’s kid didn’t make it, he wasn’t one of the best 19 kids. Sorry. [/quote]

Really? Half of those kids ride the bench and never even see the court. Another clueless one. [/quote]

Sorry that you are upset your son didn't make the team but I hope that you are modeling more mature behavior for him that what you are expressing here. Your 6th grade son's athletic skill has been solely defined by how early he started, how much money you have paid and how much you committed to him learning basketball. Maybe he doesn't have any demonstrable talent. Maybe the coach doesn't see him developing beyond what he showed during tryouts.  Maybe he isn't in very good shape and was winded a lot during the tryouts.[/quote]

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