Anonymous
02/01/2026 15:45
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ant parent who would consider sending their kid to “ school” at a dilapidated ice center for mediocre DMV hockey really needs to have their head checked.
Let's be brutally honest, the entire kiddie club sports/clinics industrial complex is a massive scam. If your kid is not a natural born athlete, all the tens of thousands of dollars spent on sports over the years is as good as lit on fire.
People pour tons of money into hockey even when they attend public schools. You’re right — almost all roads lead to beer league. But the thing is, a ton of fun can be had along the way. And I agree that the public school experience has rapidly deteriorated. Anyone who thinks their district is immune to the huge problems is kidding themselves.
This *could* be done well, for the right kid.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 14:18
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Ant parent who would consider sending their kid to “ school” at a dilapidated ice center for mediocre DMV hockey really needs to have their head checked.
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Anonymous
02/01/2026 13:12
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Ant parent who would consider sending their kid to “ school” at a dilapidated ice center for mediocre DMV hockey really needs to have their head checked.
Let's be brutally honest, the entire kiddie club sports/clinics industrial complex is a massive scam. If your kid is not a natural born athlete, all the tens of thousands of dollars spent on sports over the years is as good as lit on fire.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 13:02
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Where is it?
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
True! The online education might be fine. I don’t like when kids make a sport their whole identify, though. So few make it to a professional level, which means the rest need friends, school and hobbies unrelated to their sport to fall back on when things don’t work out.
Traditional school =/= socialization. Sitting in an overcrowded classroom filled with your same-age peers of varying abilities (severe learning disabilities, behavioral issues, no English), all while being told to work quietly on your iPad… is a sh*tty learning environment.
I don’t know about this hockey school (what’s its name?), but I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s worse than public school.
It may be better — I assume they wouldn’t allow Little Johnny to stay in the classroom after throwing the desk at the teacher.
Thank goodness none of the public schools that my kids or the kids of anyone in my very wide circle of friends attended was anything remotely like what you describe.
Sure, Jan.
Equity above all.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 12:07
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Hockey is an unusual sport in that if you want to play in college, you can't even go straight from high school to D1, you basically have to play junior hockey until you age out at 20-21 and then you go to play D1, which is why D1 hockey players are much older than other D1 athletes. A lot of recruiting happens out of junior hockey. So if playing in college is really your aim, then this isn't a terrible model assuming they have connections to the right junior programs.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 12:04
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
I don’t know anything about travel hockey or this school, but I really don’t see what’s so bad about this model for the right kid.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 11:48
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Where is it?
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
True! The online education might be fine. I don’t like when kids make a sport their whole identify, though. So few make it to a professional level, which means the rest need friends, school and hobbies unrelated to their sport to fall back on when things don’t work out.
Traditional school =/= socialization. Sitting in an overcrowded classroom filled with your same-age peers of varying abilities (severe learning disabilities, behavioral issues, no English), all while being told to work quietly on your iPad… is a sh*tty learning environment.
I don’t know about this hockey school (what’s its name?), but I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s worse than public school.
It may be better — I assume they wouldn’t allow Little Johnny to stay in the classroom after throwing the desk at the teacher.
Thank goodness none of the public schools that my kids or the kids of anyone in my very wide circle of friends attended was anything remotely like what you describe.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 10:36
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Where is it?
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
True! The online education might be fine. I don’t like when kids make a sport their whole identify, though. So few make it to a professional level, which means the rest need friends, school and hobbies unrelated to their sport to fall back on when things don’t work out.
I assume they’d make friends with the other hockey students? All the public school kids play Roblox instead of pursuing other hobbies. It’s not hard to keep pace with that.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 10:22
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Where is it?
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
True! The online education might be fine. I don’t like when kids make a sport their whole identify, though. So few make it to a professional level, which means the rest need friends, school and hobbies unrelated to their sport to fall back on when things don’t work out.
Traditional school =/= socialization. Sitting in an overcrowded classroom filled with your same-age peers of varying abilities (severe learning disabilities, behavioral issues, no English), all while being told to work quietly on your iPad… is a sh*tty learning environment.
I don’t know about this hockey school (what’s its name?), but I wouldn’t automatically assume it’s worse than public school.
It may be better — I assume they wouldn’t allow Little Johnny to stay in the classroom after throwing the desk at the teacher.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 10:20
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous
02/01/2026 10:15
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Does this belong in private schools? Please don’t suck us into your weird world
Anonymous
02/01/2026 10:14
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Where is it?
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
True! The online education might be fine. I don’t like when kids make a sport their whole identify, though. So few make it to a professional level, which means the rest need friends, school and hobbies unrelated to their sport to fall back on when things don’t work out.
Anonymous
02/01/2026 10:11
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Where is it?
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
Considering the state of many of our public schools, it may not be a bad option. 😆
Anonymous
02/01/2026 09:56
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Anonymous wrote:Ant parent who would consider sending their kid to “ school” at a dilapidated ice center for mediocre DMV hockey really needs to have their head checked.
Why is it your business?
Anonymous
02/01/2026 09:01
Subject: The hockey sports industrial complex strikes again
Ant parent who would consider sending their kid to “ school” at a dilapidated ice center for mediocre DMV hockey really needs to have their head checked.