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Believe me, my heart goes out to the kid for having the stones to stick it out, too, and I'd like nothing better than to see him go off and workout all next summer, and come back next year and cram some humble pie down some throats. But right now in time I think maybe he'd be better off exploring his talents in other areas. I couldn't agree more with you, TDF, on the "Whatever" attitude. A lot of kids also get this attitude that if they're not starting, they aren't even going to stick it out on the team. Don't know where this sense of bloated ego or attitude stems from, that they don't get the concept of 'team', but it's rather disheartening in a way that they find it so easy to say, "I quit". That attitude isn't going to get them very far in life.
Discipline is definitely the parents responsibility, and hopefully, where it concerns our educators, it includes respect.
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