Everyone should have a chance to play travel soccer (with licensed refs and licensed coaches). If a child is motivated enough to spend six or seven hours over two Saturday mornings scrimmaging (the idea, suggested in the wait-list letter, that it was "fun" was small solace indeed for not making the team), he or she should be able to play. It seems to me that we should, as parents, and as a town, be doing everything humanly possible to give our children the opportunity to continue playing sports.
I know that many of the views expressed in this letter are shared by others in our town and throughout the nation. If we can talk about our ideas and start a dialogue, I am confident that changes can be made which will be beneficial to all children who want to play. All that it will take is for the No-Name Soccer Club to strive toward inclusion, rather than tolerate a policy of exclusion.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Brooke deLench