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I played soccer in HS. There were rumors of aspiring players parents renting apartments in different districts to make them eligible for a certain league or dis

• Taniwha 6y ago
  Yeah but: I volunteered in a High School in East Oakland a couple of decades back - the school football team won the state championship, people were so proud, then they were disqualified because their star player was living in a car with his mom .... didn't have a fixed Oakland address even though he lived there. Some people don't have the luxury of an address, much less 3 forms of address .... but every kid should be able to play Little League, or school sports etc etc and any system that doesn't go out of its way to allow this is fundamentally broken
  • kstrauser 6y ago
    For sure. Out of curiosity, do you know of a good compromise that would allow the kid to play while still keeping the rules mostly in place for other kids?
    • Taniwha 6y ago
      I think you need compassionate teachers and functionaries who are capable of bending rules when appropriate, and rules that allow for such bending. And, I guess, everyone else not trying to take advantage of such a system.
      • kstrauser 6y ago
        That last one seems to be the hard part to solve. I totally agree about the need for flexibility though. It would break my heart to see a kid disqualified for the reasons you gave.