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Tackle football for my GIRL, being a minority,lots
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 84171" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Thanks for all the feedback...lol. A few points:</p><p>1/Daughter is very close to Dad and has been a sports nut since she was little. Unlikely she'll quit loving football, BUT we did see the Varsity team yesterday (there IS a girl on it, but she rarely plays). The boys are huge. We'll see what next year brings. I do live in a very small town, under 2000, yet we have our own school district. The Girl's Volleyball Team won the Central Wisconsin Division Championship for the first time ever, and the town made a huge fuss over it, even hiring the fire dept. to pick the girls up from the tournament. Daughter is excited about Volleyball, and that schedule would conflict with football. She can't do both. I'm going to encourage Volleyball. In the longterm, it's a sport she can play forever, and, being tall and thin, she would rock at it. We'll see.</p><p></p><p>Our community as a whole is pretty white. There is really nowhere close by where there are many AA kids. The few AA/bi-racial boys have girls beating their doors down. It's not the same for the girls, I don't think, but we'll see. A friend of mine has a teenager that she adopted from India, and she's had several boyfriends. The thing is, the towns are cliqueish. They tend to date kids in their own schools, but it's not unheard of that they cross over. My daughter is in a skating club on Saturday nights and there are kids from three schools there and, again, she excels at skating and loves to go. So she is already in an activity where she meets kids from other schools. Plus she met many boys from our neighboring town when she played football and the boys were pretty nice to her. I guess I'll wait and see what happens because I have thought that this isn't really a good community for her and my son, BUT my daughter and son love it and have actually not been called names or left out of the loop. Both get frantic if I suggest moving, so maybe I answered my own question, at least for now. You are all terrific!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 84171, member: 1550"] Thanks for all the feedback...lol. A few points: 1/Daughter is very close to Dad and has been a sports nut since she was little. Unlikely she'll quit loving football, BUT we did see the Varsity team yesterday (there IS a girl on it, but she rarely plays). The boys are huge. We'll see what next year brings. I do live in a very small town, under 2000, yet we have our own school district. The Girl's Volleyball Team won the Central Wisconsin Division Championship for the first time ever, and the town made a huge fuss over it, even hiring the fire dept. to pick the girls up from the tournament. Daughter is excited about Volleyball, and that schedule would conflict with football. She can't do both. I'm going to encourage Volleyball. In the longterm, it's a sport she can play forever, and, being tall and thin, she would rock at it. We'll see. Our community as a whole is pretty white. There is really nowhere close by where there are many AA kids. The few AA/bi-racial boys have girls beating their doors down. It's not the same for the girls, I don't think, but we'll see. A friend of mine has a teenager that she adopted from India, and she's had several boyfriends. The thing is, the towns are cliqueish. They tend to date kids in their own schools, but it's not unheard of that they cross over. My daughter is in a skating club on Saturday nights and there are kids from three schools there and, again, she excels at skating and loves to go. So she is already in an activity where she meets kids from other schools. Plus she met many boys from our neighboring town when she played football and the boys were pretty nice to her. I guess I'll wait and see what happens because I have thought that this isn't really a good community for her and my son, BUT my daughter and son love it and have actually not been called names or left out of the loop. Both get frantic if I suggest moving, so maybe I answered my own question, at least for now. You are all terrific! [/QUOTE]
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