[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a multi year Crabs parent I can say that our experience has been very good. Great coaching, competition and parents. Every program has parents that complain and go out of their way to make a program look bad. I know several FCA families that are looking to switch for a variety of reasons and have been vocal about it. Nothing at all against FCA but my point is that any Club will have unhappy parents. At the end of the day our obligation is to our sons to make sure they are in a good learning environment and if they are interested in playing in college get an opportunity to get the exposure. We have been very happy with our decision to play for crabs. Every year we have asked our son if he wants to play for them and it is always a resounding yes. If you asked him why it would be because of the coaching and competition. And no my son is not a reclassifier.
Not a Crabs or FCA parent here...I certainly respect the level of quality of Crabs players, but if your son is in the minority of ones who have not / will not be repeating grades, don't you at some level get repulsed by it? To each his own stuff is fine, there is no rule against it and certainly the NCAA coaches eventually recruiting the kids know the birth dates and the fact that the kids are older or not. But just at a basic level, does it bother you as a long time Crabs parent? I commend your measured post and hope this does not stoke any defensiveness. Repeating grades is happening everywhere but by that same reasoning we can all drive 100mph on rural roads and call that the flow of traffic and say it's a safe thing to agree on.
