a few hold backs give me a break . These kids drive themselves to the tnmts.
Ok-that was just stupid and is TOTALLY UNTRUE! And let's review since we haven't done so this week....lacrosse is a grade based system. If a new kid who repeated a grade two years ago shows up for your tryout, would you tell him that he can't even though he's entering the same grade as the other kids on the field? And if you're not from The Baltimore area, you probably don't fully understand the pre-first phenomenon that makes many kids older for a current grade. Pre-first decisions are not made to gain an athletic advantage; they're made to gain academic ground and psychological maturity. Every single school and every single club team (even the not-so-competitive ones) in the Baltimore area has some of these kids.
"And if you're not from The Baltimore area, you probably don't fully understand the pre-first phenomenon that makes many kids older for a current grade." What is unique about the the Baltimore area that makes pre-school kids not ready for school, either academically or socially?? Are you suggesting they somehow are different than kids from other areas in this regard? Are their schools more advanced, IE, more difficult? Unless the answer to the second question is yes (LOL!), then all of the other likely reasons are damning in some way to the kids and/or the parents, and also suggest that while athletics might not be the overt answer, it has become ingrained in the locality as the thing to do "just in case" Johnny shows potential on the lax field if and when he plays . . .
