My question to all this is why is the mother against letting her son play for his Jr. High/Middle School?
For what it’s worth.....
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Elijah’s size hasn’t prevented him from playing football until now. And he and his mother said he’s not ready to go up against kids with years of playing behind them.
“I don’t want to play in school right now because it’s people that’s had experience and I want to get some experience first and then start playing,” he said. “I just want to play because my teammates are my friends. I know them. I don’t want to go play for somebody else I don’t know.”
Coach Marc Wright is protesting the decision. He said there are a lot of seventh graders over the weight limit and they are being allowed to play.
“If they’re over 135 they have to wear a symbol on their helmet, which is the X. So if they’re an X-man they have to play offensive line, defensive line only,” he said.
Read more: http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/19266464/boy-12-ruled-too-big-to-play-football#ixzz23oaI288h
I know deport I read that too....but come on, really?
This kid is the size of a grown adult. At that size the kid is going to be just fine regardless of the experience of the other players! And who’s better to give this kid experience: a teacher/coach whose job it is to coach football and teach kids a system that they will need to move on to the next level within his school district, or a part-time volunteer coach whose real job is something else? No disrespect to Pee Wee League coaches, but coaching is not their real job.
Seem to me this is just another example of an overprotective, helicopter mom and a kid that is a bit of a wuss and afraid to test himself against a higher standard.