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my immediate supervisor has a kid who is on the softball team for her junior high school (yes, they play in fall). the school has a rule that for

Posted by ☀️ mandy chem ☀️ (aka amanda) Aug 16 '24, 07:02

every practice and every game, every kid must have at least one parent or legal guardian present.

this seems to me so "poor kids shouldn't play sports."

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so, how on earth do they even fill a whole team? -- nm - Andie Aug 16, 07:26 8
- rich people -- nm - decline Aug 16, 07:38 7
  - Or kids with modern, very not nuclear families who can rotate a whole list of bio and step parents -- nm - JD Aug 16, 08:18
  - Do rich people have time to attend every sports practice? -- nm - Roger More Aug 16, 08:03 5
    - most likely only 1 parent works, so yeah -- nm - decline Aug 16, 08:08 4
      - Or super rich, single parents -- nm - JD Aug 16, 08:17 2
        
        or... very poor parents who work as groundskeepers at the softball field -- nm - rollo Aug 16, 08:22 1
        
        😏 -- nm - JD Aug 16, 08:23
      - Yeah, I agree it's a specific type of well-off family. -- nm - Roger More Aug 16, 08:15
I look forward to learning the incident that led to this rule. -- nm - Mop🧹 Aug 16, 07:23
That’s loony tunes. -- nm - Will Hunting Aug 16, 07:15
every practice. wtaf -- nm - oblique Aug 16, 07:03 1
- yeah, that is weird. maybe liability reasons if a kid gets hurt? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 16, 07:15

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