Kids can thrive in these types of schools, particularly if they are athletic and driven as you said and the parents are invested in seeing them succeed.Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:53 pmI am sure people say that about all of us paying $5k+ for a season. The kid seems to love it, is good at it and and I presume they can afford it. He'd be well served to move up if he really is putting in all that extra work. It would be incredible for my kid to have that kind of drive for anything lolGuest wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:18 pm
The only thing that tells me is that the parents need a psych evaluation.
And as we all know, the public school system is broken and overrun with kids but severely underfunded. For what they are learning daily, you don't need 6 hours of instruction. It can be done much better and more efficiently in half a day and allow talented kids to spend the other time improving their skating and skills. They will get a lot more out of it than a team practice which is often hurried and in which you have to focus on close to 20 kids playing different positions and having different skills. The other benefit is that you know the instruction is very good unlike you taking your player to 5 different development skates a week with maybe good coaches but maybe also awful grifters who just want their $70/hour.
If you want to play AA and be average, maybe your team ice time is enough. If you want to be high end AA or AAA, you need a lot of extra time on ice and this is just a different way of ensuring your kid is getting it. It sounds like it’s working for the MB player.