Could someone just kill this thread?

Debate club families and coaches are very intense. All these douchebag supreme court lawyers and wannabes are pathetic.

i see kids working out with private instructors all the time.

What is the difference between a private lacrosse instructor, a private golf or tennis instructor

People will pay well over $100 / hour to improve their game in any sport.

Is fighting allowed in chess like for ice hockey? Sounds like it could be a fabulously entertaining thing to watch considering it is so boring to begin with.

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Anonymous wrote:Chess? Really? Didn't see that one coming.

Either did we... we had a good laugh over it.

They have a map of places downtown where you can pay guys to play your kids. I guess the guys are homeless ... not sure why you need to pay them. We were fine just being mediocre at chess.

It like the private trainers all the lax kids get but very, very different.

Laugh all you want. The parents at a typical scholastic chess tournament make lax sideline parents look like wussies. Couple the most intense immigrant aspirational zeal with helicopter parenting and drive for academic success and you have scholastic chess. Made worse by the requirement to hold your tongue during play. The local lax bros would get eaten alive in this environment.

Anonymous wrote:Private trainers for lacrosse are mostly the unemployed college lacrosse kids coming home after graduation.

it's a nice way to make $100/hr

Private trainers for lacrosse are mostly the unemployed college lacrosse kids coming home after graduation.

Anonymous wrote:Chess? Really? Didn't see that one coming.

Either did we... we had a good laugh over it.

They have a map of places downtown where you can pay guys to play your kids. I guess the guys are homeless ... not sure why you need to pay them. We were fine just being mediocre at chess.

It like the private trainers all the lax kids get but very, very different.

Chess? Really? Didn't see that one coming.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't see a math club bros culture or a tennis bros sub-culture at other schools. You are entitled to be a lunatic if is suits you; no judgement just an observation. If it pumps your tires to someday see junior twirl a butterfly net on a partial scholarship at a college someday, that sounds neat.

Wrong again. I know theater cliques and robotics groups and my kid's school that take on many of the same characteristics. "I heard so and so got into UMichigan or NYU theater programs". "Can you believe that he/she was waitlisted at Caltech and MIT and had to settle for RPI"? Believe what you like, but this stuff exists way beyond boys lacrosse.

Good point. Zealots are alive and well in the DMV. Usually has something to do with being devoted parents who are supporting their kids. I have seen the same zeal applied to choir, swimming, crew and drama. This is a competitive place to live and it extends to the parenting process at least as much as it does to the athletic fields. Is that healthy or necessarily fun? Probably not, but it is the status quo in the DC area. You can deny it or try to make yourself an exception, but the ethos permeates the child rearing process around these parts.

Maybe it's time to admit we're all a little crazy. We're on DCUM, after all!

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Anonymous wrote:Don't see a math club bros culture or a tennis bros sub-culture at other schools. You are entitled to be a lunatic if is suits you; no judgement just an observation. If it pumps your tires to someday see junior twirl a butterfly net on a partial scholarship at a college someday, that sounds neat.

Wrong again. I know theater cliques and robotics groups and my kid's school that take on many of the same characteristics. "I heard so and so got into UMichigan or NYU theater programs". "Can you believe that he/she was waitlisted at Caltech and MIT and had to settle for RPI"? Believe what you like, but this stuff exists way beyond boys lacrosse.

Chess Competition parents are insane too.

Anonymous wrote:Don't see a math club bros culture or a tennis bros sub-culture at other schools. You are entitled to be a lunatic if is suits you; no judgement just an observation. If it pumps your tires to someday see junior twirl a butterfly net on a partial scholarship at a college someday, that sounds neat.

Wrong again. I know theater cliques and robotics groups and my kid's school that take on many of the same characteristics. "I heard so and so got into UMichigan or NYU theater programs". "Can you believe that he/she was waitlisted at Caltech and MIT and had to settle for RPI"? Believe what you like, but this stuff exists way beyond boys lacrosse.

Don't see a math club bros culture or a tennis bros sub-culture at other schools. You are entitled to be a lunatic if is suits you; no judgement just an observation. If it pumps your tires to someday see junior twirl a butterfly net on a partial scholarship at a college someday, that sounds neat.

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Anonymous wrote:PP. Has an interesting point

I'm familiar with the Washington lacrosse community and the Baltimore lacrosse community. IMHO the problems in the lax culture are some of the DC parents and their extra-special boys.

It is pervasive in both areas. Quite honestly it now looks to me like these prep school lacrosse programs are running like college programs. Recruiting players, etc. The parents are nuts and don't seem to be able to hold a non-lacrosse conversation with other parents in the same community and the kids just seem off in the distance as a lacrosse peer group. Reminds me of HS football in Texas in terms of the intensity over it.

this, as opposed to other groups of teenagers and parents that associate based upon common interests. Give these people a break. We all deserve to live our lives in a manner that suits us.