OT: Youth sports this summer?

[upstater]

My kids are still little so the pain involved from loss of sports is minimal - but our entire spring soccer season was (of course) cancelled, and the league is asking parents to "donate" 100% of the fee. They take 20% off the top and you can choose 50% or 100%. Does anyone else have a league that is not reimbursing? I understand they have some fixed costs but you have a lot of parents out of work, it's a tough line to take.

We pay for premier league which is hefty cost, and there has been no talk of reimbursements for the main tuition. I imagine that any reimbursements at this point would annihilate the club.

 

[Horatio]

I told my kids back in March that they probably won’t be able to play travel or AAU basketball again til 2021. They’ve accepted using a year off as an opportunity to get stronger and better. I’m also gonna use this missed time as an opportunity to reclassify my oldest kid.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

My kid's last year of Little League....he plays spring and then the district team into the summer and I coach him. It's really heartbreaking....I know people are dealing with much bigger real life issues (sickness, lost jobs, social isolation), but I can't help but be really saddened by it. You can't get this time back...

While I'm a big sports fan in general, missing pro sports is nothing compared to this...I have the rest of my life to watch grown men play for millions...losing the youth sports is tough.

Amen brother

 

[David 76]

Superjohn,
You exemplify the notion that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Let go of it.

Progrocks is right about the second ensuring you don't have to wear a mask but that was in reference to Halloween.

 

[TXHuskyFan]

Progrocks is right about the second ensuring you don't have to wear a mask but that was in reference to Halloween.

What in the 2nd amendment says that?

 

[superjohn]

Great article on how we have to open soon...

Doctors on front line of worst-hit city in world say it’s time to end shutdown

Doctors on front line of worst-hit city in world say it’s time to end shutdown

The doctor looked around the unusually quiet intensive care unit, catching his breath and taking stock for the first time in what felt like weeks. Dr Samir Farhat’s hospital in New York had been at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the US. Now, the ICU was almost back to normal and he...

news.yahoo.com

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I'd guess that that means teachers in school and students at home?

I've heard a rumor about staggered start times, etc. My question is how do single parents or homes where both parents work accommodate that if offices, restaurants and stores open and people have to go do their job? My wife and I are lucky that we can both work from home and have some flexibility but not everyone is in the same boat and I haven't really heard anyone address that side of it.