I was approached by a parent of a 12-year old wanna-be catcher today. The parent lamented to me that the "coaches" in the small town where the wanna-be catcher plays youth baseball told them(when the 12-year old was in 4th grade) that he needed to concentrate on another position since another player was already "annointed" as the catcher from then through varsity HS.
I was not surprised. Seen it happen often.
The parent explained to me that when they graduated from a big high school(over 1000/class), the BEST players were rewarded with playing time, not the players who were "certain" parent's children.
I was at a loss for words to explain a "reason" for this phenomenon... it existed when my son was growing up and seemingly will always be occurring.
I told the parent that moving to another town would just expose the new town's form of the same parental influence. It goes on everywhere, just seems more blatant in the smaller places.
I know "life ain't fair" and parents exist to make life better for their little Johnnies, but when is too much/too soon too much/too soon?
I expect the poster who can reply with the solution to this situation will one day be able to run for high political office should they choose.
OPP
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