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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it annoying because the kids I know well from upper NW/close-in MD who are being recruited have parents who poured an absolute TON of money into their kids. 
Their kid had baseline athletic ability (as do countless kids at age 5 or 8) and then their parents paid for private coaches for YEARS and YEARS.  Flew them all over the Eastern seaboard for tournaments.  Weekend after weekend for years.  Three of the kids I'm thinking of have dads (and moms) who never worked or have worked very, very part time (they live off family money). 
The dad's sole occupation for 17 years has been to develop their kid's talent.  
If you live in NW DC or Chevy Chase, etc and have a kid on high-level travel teams, I'm sure you've run into this situation.  I've seen it at least a half dozen times.

I know that this type of situation isn't the case with high school athletes in much of America (or maybe it is?) but here in NW DC, it's the kids who paid ENORMOUS amounts of money to play that are being recruited.  And often with parents who can afford to not work or to only work very part-time.  Not all recruits from this area are in this position (for sure!) but I have seen it happen many times.

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More jealously, stop worrying about what other people do with their lives, their money, whether they work or not.  As others have said, plenty of the same happens in getting students a leg up on many other dimensions of college admissions....private schools with small classes, tutors, test prep, home environments with little responsibility (no job needed, every need/want provided).  Education of parents is the biggest predictor of child success, are you jealous of people with college degrees too? [/quote]

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