I'm going to vent for a moment.
I asked my son's middle school why they don't have a modified baseball team. I was told that it is because they have a no-cut policy in sports at the modified sports level and that baseball would be unmanageable with too many players on a team.
He does have the option of playing through the local little league while he is in middle school, but the reps that he would receive in a modified program would far exceed little league. Our HS team plays in a conference in which all of the other 16 school districts have modified teams, without a no-cut policy. I believe our HS team's historical lack of strong performance is due in part to the lack of a modified program.
What are we teaching our kids when there is a no-cut policy? Nothing about the way that the real world operates.
In my opinion a policy such as this is strictly for the benefit of the parents. They didn't institute a no-cut policy for the kids sake, they did it for the parents. Kids are tough. They'll either quit or work harder when they get cut.
I think we have to stop coddling the parents.
Any thoughts?
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