Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, it was ok for you to do it but not others?

DP

It has to stop somewhere. She went through it and learned it was wrong.

OP here. I never traveled for sports and did not feel that I missed out, I just call out the ridiculous. My younger kid plays sports in the yard. COVID cooled us down and gave me time to think. So yes, driving a 9 year old to Virginia Beach to do a balance beam routine is the night of stupid.

Anonymous wrote:So, it was ok for you to do it but not others?

DP

It has to stop somewhere. She went through it and learned it was wrong.

So, it was ok for you to do it but not others?

I agree: my son was in the ice hockey club and we really hated that kids were supposed to be driven to matches. No-one liked it, kids neither. But there was no way to say no. If you wanted to play hockey nd stay in the club , you had to participate in those matches. Same with almost all other sports.

I agree with you on both points especially the sidewalk idea.

So now that your kids have finished doing the fun travel sport getaways, you think they should end and no one else should get to do them?

My children were on "travel teams" for various sports. They were average athletes in my opinion, why did we need to drive all the way to Southern Virginia and New Jersey for meets?
Can we end this craziness? No 11 year old needs to go that far to compete with other kids. Funny enough, one of my kids did eventually become a D1 athlete, and partly due to COVID, all of their meets were local.
Also, redistricting sounds like another way to burn more fossil fuel in transporting the kids to and from school.
One last thing, I think that every public school in MoCo should have a mile radius of walkable sidewalks on both sides of the road.