I really enjoy reading Chris’ thoughts on education and youth sport. I believe in what he is saying. Raising life long learners and life long participants in sport is preferable to the burn out most feel in attempting to keep up with the Joneses. Enjoy… the parallels are striking!
Outside of work, I spend many hours coaching my kids and other parents’ kids in school and community sports. There is a lively debate right now in the youth sports community about the value of focusing exclusively on a single sport from a young age. I wrote on the topic in a 2012 post on the Multi-Sport High School Athlete, and in 2013 on Being a Sports Parent Today. Part of what really draws me to this challenge in youth sports are the parallels and similar debates in education.
I find the conversation around sports and whether we should be keeping score and ranking players and teams from youth, akin to the conversation around the purpose and appearance of elementary school report cards. Letter grades are very much like keeping score; those who argue for them remind us of the competitive nature of the world we live in and the need to let kids know where they stand, with those opposed contending the…
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