As Chris Moore, the executive officer of the U.S. Youth Soccer Association, told the New York Times, “if you can’t make a travel team some kids may say, ‘what’s the point,’ and quit playing altogether.”
The American system of youth sports system has become a pay-to-play enterprise.
Declining athletic participation is a prime example of how the choices even benevolent rich households make can hurt poorer families—especially their children.
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