This may be the best topic ever posted on this forum! Over the years I have heard it all!!! The last few years I have heard "I am going to quit to get my grades up." Kids that say that always crack me up because they generally are not doing well in class to begin with. They always tell me that they are going to study for those two hours a night after school. I have NEVER seen a kid quit a sport and improve in class. It just doesn't happen.

Another one I have heard is the time honored excuse "I am going to quit and get ready for next year." Wow....I am sure that's the method of choice for the Gables, the Brands, and the Smiths of the world.

The bottom line to me is that kids quit because they find out that it's a lot of work and we live in a society where people tend to run from work. I would love to have more kids out every year (we usually finish with 10-12) but I would rather have my 11 kids now busting their fanny's every day than 20 kids that don't want to work.

That is all.