11 Year Old Benched For Scoring Too Many Touchdowns

There is a kid like that on my sons 8th grade football team. Last year they finished 6-0 and only gave up 18 points total in the six games. This year started the same way until their 3rd game when the opposing coach decided to actually game plan to stop him. They beat my sons team comfortably and the lesson in humility that my son and his teammates learned will be invaluable because they were getting too cocky. The other team felt like they just won the Super Bowl so imagine the boost those kids got to their self-confidence.

Sports teaches kids a lot of valuable lessons win or lose, but teaching kids that they aren't good enough to win or to stop one dominant kid is not a lesson you ever want taught.
 


conv3rsion said:
I get where you are coming from but that also robs the kids on the other team from playing against real skills, which they deserve.
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How so? As I understand it he still plays, he's just limited?...and my point was this is ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Kids this young should be allowed to be kids and should be learning cooperation and team spirit. Like I said, let him tear ass in highschool.

And btw, did you guys notice his attitude? Seems like he's the only one with his head on straight, it's the adults reaction, (as usual) that may need to be benched.
 
loyolabenson said:
how about we take away your fucking solo? Its a team effort. At least the better you are at singing, the quieter you sing. We don't want the fat low confidence girl in the back to feel left out.
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There are multiple ways to reward the talented and skilled. My highschool offered two groups: a regular choir and an advanced group of about 10. We wanted even more. So 4 of us girls got together and approached the music teach with an idea about an accapella group. The four of us would rotate solos for what made sense with our vocal range. It was fun and it was good but we didn't leave the other two groups. We enjoyed them all for different reasons.

You guys are only thinking about one thing. One individual achievement. and I know it's not cool to think about anything else, but the reality is there's much more involved in life. Team, socialization, achievement, unity, friends, experience, group dynamic...all of these are extremely important in the development of children. You can scream liberal and socialism all you want but the fact is we are extremely social creatures and if we continue to always condemn people for working together and ONLY reward individual achievement we are doing a huge disservice to future generations. As with everything, there needs to be a balance and, it seems, that's what this school is trying to achieve.
 
The way the kid took it was so mature. "Yeah, I'm okay with it. God and good grades come first. Whenever I get to play I'll run hard, do my best and help the team win."

Shit.
 
turbolapp said:
I think it's fine at this age, all the kids need a chance to build their skills.
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That makes sense, if everyone reaches the same skill level equally, it will be impossible for anyone to advance higher since there wouldn't be any challenges to overcome.

For too long we've been teaching children to aim high, that they can be anything they want to be. This is devastating for those who don't learn that it also requires hard work. We can save everyone that pain by discouraging hard work from the very beginning.

They need to work on that kids character next, he has too much of it. Taking him down a few pegs will ensure no other children feel they need to live up to any kind of standards.

BTW: This is sarcasm. Figured I'd mention it this time since some people actually think I'm serious.

They should let that kid set higher standards by letting him play as hard as he can, score as much as he can. It will motivate his team and his opponents to work harder to out do him. Everyone gets something out of it.

What's the point of making it easy? By your logic we shouldn't make anything difficult if it may hurt someones confidence. Quick, someone tell the creators of Angry Birds to make it so you can just crush the levels with your finger instead of using the birds, and before too many people try out Battlefield 3, they should make it so nobody dies when they get shot. This way, nobody loses. That will be waaay more fun.
 
Why not fit him with cinder blocks for shoes and let him play? That would be the Harrison Bergeron approach.

Hopefully him and his classmates read that story in school.

Let the mediocre with tall poppy syndrome drown in their own tears.
 
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Ar Scion said:
The way the kid took it was so mature. "Yeah, I'm okay with it. God and good grades come first. Whenever I get to play I'll run hard, do my best and help the team win."

Shit.
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Exactly. Someone is doing something right with this kid no matter how much everyone else is trying to fuck with that.
 
guysmy said:
Why not fit him with cinder blocks for shoes and let him play? That would be the Harrison Bergeron approach.

Hopefully him and his classmates read that story in school.

Let the mediocre with tall poppy syndrome drown in their own tears.
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Nice Vonnegut reference, +rep

I don't think this story matters that much- there are all sorts of 'mercy rules' in youth sports. There's a basketball league nearby which doesn't even keep score. I'd be more worried about this pattern of behavior in classrooms than in the football field- pandering to the lowest common denominator brings everyone down to that level.
 
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