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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does it matter if the child plays for the HS or if they are on a club team not affiliated with the HS?[/quote]

you kinda want kids playing for the schools[/quote]

I wish the US would adopt a European approach to scholastic sports. Schools should have nada to do with it, it just detracts from their missions.  Leave the sports to clubs.[/quote]

What is the European approach?  I agree it needs to change.[/quote]

What I just described.  The schools don’t sponsor athletics. Kids can, should and do play sports, but all the leagues are run independently of schools. [/quote]

This is not true, at least in the UK (which was part of the EU at least until recently). Boys are recruited for soccer and track and girls for swimming and netball and a host of other sports. I know because we knew plenty of kids who ended up at places like St Pauls for Girls and Highgate because of sports scholarships. That said, there are also privates that use the arts as a way to recruit- and there are also a surprisingly number of performing arts schools. [/quote]

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