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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is only true in the UMC/wealthy school districts- which on a whole, are are small percentage of American high schools.

Your kid could play on almost any varsity team at a title 1 or even middle class district- and many of these are D1 schools. [/quote]

That’s a pretty much uneducated opinion from someone who knows nothing.    You obviously don’t follow sports.  Many of the top names in basketball grew up in poverty.  By high school the top are recruited to residential schools specializing in their sport.

Pro sports are also recruiting more international players.   Eastern Europeans are playing basketball, Dominicans make up a large amount of baseball players, Canadians play hockey year round.

Students in middle class or low income school districts cannot just play any varsity sport. I can’t figure out why you would even think that.

Exceptions might be swimming, soccer, track, sports that nobody cares about.    They might be walk ons.  [/quote]

This is a braid dead take that’s about 20 years behind the times.  [/quote]

Some of you wish this wasn’t the case.   So many brag about their high IQs and your children all have high IQs.  There’s also genetics that involve athletic ability most involving the legs and running.   Height is genetics.  Muscle tone is genetics.  Kids with determination might be able to overcome what they are naturally lacking and play competitively but it’s not as easy as naturally athletic.

What exactly do you think is from 2005?  [/quote]

No one is disputing athleticism being largely genetic.  But WHY do you think only poor kids have athletic genes?  [/quote]

No, it’s not just kids in lower income schools.   Athletes come from every type of school. [b] It was another poster who claimed that athletes are only from upper middle class towns.  [/b]Really stupid comment.  
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That is not at all what that poster said or implied.  You just misunderstood their comment.[/quote]

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