Your post: ya, its too bad that the kids of mt pleasant & the taxpaying parents are really getting screwed with only one team for each sport with all those numbers. a lot of quality mt pleasant kids & parents have become very cynical towards the inequities of those numbers in all wando sports.
wish the school board or anyone with common sense would address those issues. if only it was about the kids & the importance of hs sports
My response, again, as plain as I can make it: Yes, Wando is a large enrollment high school. Yes, there may be kids there who DON'T make the varsity who could play elsewhere. That said, when you are adjudged the 31st-best male soccer player at ANY high school in SC, regardless of enrollment, your parents may be better served to encourage you to try other sports or do other things.
Many parents locate in Mount Pleasant for the specific purpose of sending their kids to "good" schools. At ANY school, you BALANCE the good with the bad. If the "bad" is too many kids and not enough roster spots, and SOCCER is your priority, then send your son to any one of several perfectly good alternatives (BE or AMHS). Just understand that, being the 31st best player at Wando doesn't necessarily guarantee you a spot elsewhere.
One of the best things about sport is the presumed objectivity of the selection process. Unless you're telling me that a kid is CLEARLY in the top 30 and DOESN'T make the team, then, sorry, I don't have a lot of sympathy for parents who want it all.
As to the problems of a team of 32, my solution is simple: keep 24-26 instead. Problem is, you'd then have 4-6 MORE sets of parents kvetching about the size of the school.
