Parents, coaches and other adults overseeing what’s happening to youth sports — it’s time for a long overdue conversation. For-profit clubs are buying out our smaller-town youth programs, and youth sports has become a money-making, adult-ego-boosting business at the expense of our kids. They’re not working hard enough, they’re not dedicated enough — they’re not this, they’re not that. Kids are waiting for the adults to redraw the line on what youth sports are meant to be for them. Angela Glenn (glennbabies@gmail.com) is an educator in Baltimore County Public Schools and a youth club sports parent.

Source: Daily Sun May 03, 2024 14:15 UTC