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Even for notIntelligent people in this world and the Lions and Sheep- there is a right way and wrong way of doing things.In a world where every wrong decision is quickly sniffed out its hard to have any sympathy for those purposely cutting corners and leveraging hard work from others to gain future success. Especially in youth - high school sports. Boosters and Alumni have been paying tuition and supporting academic and athletics forever-
However, when you leave a trail behind you it really leaves a bad taste for all to swallow- especially when the booster works his way on to a sideline and basically takes over an entire program. Unlike this other booster talked about in this forum who stays silent and asks for almost nothing in return. So for the notIntelligent ones and the sheep that follow the lion your ‘hit the wall’ remarks are classless just like your brotherhood and family post are. The SJC parents and team are great people and they don’t deserve to be treated like this by anyone nor those Spalding families and players that have nothing to do with Hawks -

giving back scholarship money is very common in the private/prep school world. Its called being grateful which you obviously don’t understand. Yes she gave back close to two hundred grand. And yes we didn’t have much extra money when she was in high school to visit her but thanks to her we have some now. … shes very grateful to us as well. Its very strange you can’t understand this. I never said where she went to prep school or college or what she does for a living that could get her paid this kind of money.

I dont recall mentioning a son.

giving back scholarship money is very common in the private/prep school world. Its called being grateful which you obviously don’t understand. Yes she gave back close to two hundred grand. And yes we didn’t have much extra money when she was in high school to visit her but thanks to her we have some now. … shes very grateful to us as well. Its very strange you can’t understand this. I never said where she went to prep school or college or what she does for a living that could get her paid this kind of money.

I dont recall mentioning a son.

Gosh I didnt realize how people on this forum are clueless of what’s available for your children that will better their lives
Let me clarify…
1:) its very hard to leave your child at prep/ private school and only be able to visit her on campus a few times a year due to our financial situation… we chose to visit when she had a game so we could watch
2:) they met for lunch in the school cafeteria once a semester when he came in for the schools trustee meetings. There was no “constant meeting of the two”. He too did not live close to campus and we were never there at the same time….today we coukd have Zoomed him.
3:) she used her second year employment bonus to donate all the money she received from this scholarship back to the school. She does very well financially in her career. She is ever grateful to this man and the school for the opportunities they have provided her and felt a real need in her heart to pay it back to the SCHOOL not the individual. At her current age she has already recoup this money with subsequent bonuses. I know of many others at other schools who have done the same.
4:) I originally chimed in to squash this idiotic holdback debate. Its the prep/private schools that require it. You just cant walk in and say I want to hold my child back. There are many kids as you say on age at these schools that started in the lower grades and advance to high school. Public school kids are not prepared to slide over to a private school. One admission director at a private school told me for every 150 public school student who applies maybe one could slide over on grade.

The real takeaway is to you parents , get off your butt and seek out these opportunities for your child. There are alot of them out there.

Good luck and if you still think this is creepy or odd I feel bad for your children.

Sorry one more thing…. in the next few years club is going to stop in eighth grade so where your child plays in high school is going to be extremely important if he or she wants to advance to play in college at any level.

Sorry you can’t understand . Oops I did mention my son and I won’t go into details but his journey has yet to be completed.

Club lacrosse will end in eighth grade in the near future . Do what you want but I would suggest getting your son into a top private school if he wants to play in college.

Bring back MYLA. Both of my kids are in college now and both played very high level club and very high level MIAA/IAAM lacrosse. Both will say that their best lacrosse experiences were playing in MYLA as kids. My son's last year in MYLA_Midget there were 13 teams in the league and that was in 2012-2013. Now MYLA is all but gone. My friends with younger kids are miserable and so are their children. $2500/yr for club for 4th graders before the kids even know if they like lacrosse or not. Pressure to join a team, pressure to switch teams, teams poaching kids, kids as young as 5th grade reclassifying, young kids getting burnt out and injured playing lacrosse from January to July... it is a mess.