The end game is the same but the path changed. At least in revenue sports. It used to be, and still is other than lacrosse, talented players either attend a post high school prep year and/or redshirt first year of college. The Baltimore lacrosse clique figured out a way to spend the extra $25,000 for their child to do pre-first for early recruiting bragging rights.
At 6 years old, don't think so. What do the rest of the parents do it for, fun? It's a school curriculum, ding dong, you know like reading, math, stuff like that..